Posted on 08/17/2018 12:24:05 PM PDT by george76
TAOS COUNTY, New Mexico - Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe walked out of a CNN interview after defending his decision not to search a squalid New Mexico compound for a missing boy, despite having the property owners' permission to comb it.
The sheriff has been criticized by the owners of the property where the compound sits illegally. Jason and Tanya Badger believe a missing child, 3-year old Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, may have been alive on the compound when they say they alerted law enforcement months ago.
The Badgers gave written consent for a search, but it was August 3 before authorities moved in, finding 11 malnourished children and five adults.
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The Badgers said they saw the child, Abdul-Ghani, and spoke directly with his father, Siraj Wahhaj, twice in January and February. Months later, after internet research, they realized Wahhaj was a fugitive from Georgia, sought in the disappearance of his child, and they reported the sighting to the sheriff's office.
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During the August 3 raid, sheriff's deputies searched the compound but left without locating Abdul-Ghani.
A day later, the Badgers returned to their property and searched the debris-strewn compound themselves. They found a passport, a cell phone and two guns.
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The most damning piece of information in the article is that the FBI had the place under surveillance since May.
MAY.
They have the words of the enslaved kids that the little boy was killed.
Sure but the deep state runs the islamists.
Women with children were there. I would not be surprised if they were getting welfare checks.
As I have said previously on other links:
“The DOJ-CRS (Dept. of Justice, Community Relations Service) is a secret institution within the DOJ Civil Rights Division consisting of very-far-left activists who are allowed to reach into the judiciary and justice system and essentially take over. It appears that they may be involved.
It appears these Muslim terrorists have very strong links to the Obama DOJ and the Obama administration.
That is the only possible explanation for what has been happening.”
[A far cry from the way the Christians in the Branch Davidian compound were “handled” some years ago.]
Another wonderful legacy of Bill Clinton and Janet Reno.
Perhaps he thought given the people involved, it just wasn’t worth the effort.
They apparently destroyed the entire compound.(Local authorities)
If Islamic terror attacks inside the U.S. are not preventable, then that makes each one of us who gives a d@mn a soldier against terror. Effective soldiers must train with their personal arms and practice situational awareness.
As for me, I’m limiting my internet footprint to the extent possible. No social media at all. No opening emails or answering the phone if I don’t know the source.
There’s a mosque not far from where I live. It has its own hearse. On Fridays the hijabs/niqabs & kufi caps are out in force. The front, as was said during the Cold War, is everywhere.
Tom Laughlin was a certified Paul Newman style leftie, but he did some good things. Already forty when he made Billy Jack, he died at 82.
They needed a warrant to search even with the owner’s consent.
The looney tunes/terrorists there (per.the courts....not my decision and I do not agree with it...) have privacy rights as well as they have “established residency” on the property.
I bet the cops had plenty enough to get a search warrant long ago but due to the terrorism aspect brought in the feds who are notorious for their “wait...we want to be 10000000% sure before we go in.”
Sounds like the Sheriff/local L.E. agency finally went in against the Fed’s objection.
Why was the compound allowed to stay on these people’s property in the first place!?
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Maybe they quit smoking and didn’t have a BIC......
Got some terrorist muzzie lovers there.
First Vegas, now this.
Yup, it’s really creepy.
If that’s the case, the people involved got real lucky.
Well, I’ve read every article I could find and it appears the property owner had agreed to swap parcel deeds with the group after they ignorantly built on the wrong one.
But then the group couldn’t come up with the cash for the titling or deed recording for said swap and got tired of waiting and tried to evict them and then failed in some way to file perfect paperwork to get said eviction approved by the court although notice was served.
I’m not blaming the couple, I blame the system which has become too arcane (thanks, lawyers) for most people to successfully navigate on their own.
I think the Sheriffs department did make some tactical errors, the first one being to listen/trust the FeeBIs. They will lie and leave you holding the bag of poop. A good sheriff should remember that HE is in charge of his county.
The second mistake was not recognizing the threat potential of this sketchy group that had moved into his county. A smart sheriff would have held the property owners hand and walked them through the process of successful eviction just to get these sketchy characters out of his county.
The third mistake was not reporting the group for child abuse once the presence of any children, not just the missing child, at the compound because it had no water and no sanitation. That could have been used to take a look around.
I’d like to know if the FBI suggested the sheriff’s department could be investigated for civil rights violations and was trying to avoid being Arpaio’d.
It’s beginning to look as if that whole set up was some sort of FBI/CIA operation.
^This 100%
It sounds like they were squatters, not renters. Landlord-tenant law being what it is, and knowing that most states frown on self-help when it comes to evictions, I can surmise that these folks were hoping for relief from the sheriff without having to go to court.
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