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A member of the civilian border patrol group Ranch Rescue was arrested in Douglas this morning on charges stemming from a Texas illegal imprisonment case, an FBI spokeswoman said. Casey Nethercott was picked up by FBI agents and Douglas Police officers and charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, Herskovitz said. Ranch Rescue is currently conducting patrols on a private ranch in Douglas. The Texas-based group started Arizona operations earlier this year. Nethercott is accused of pistol whipping and holding an El Salvadoran couple against their will in March. The immigrants were set free because the U.S. Border Patrol didn't...

County stations take in majority of sector's illegal immigrants COCHISE COUNTY - This part of Arizona continues to be where most of the illegal immigrants crossing into the United States from Mexico are apprehended, according to figures provided by the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol. And at least eight of the illegal immigrants apprehended last month near Douglas had been robbed at gunpoint in Mexico before crossing into the United States. Sector spokesman Andy Adame said Sonora State Police authorities reported that four men robbed seven other men and a woman Friday south of the border. A person...

A Joint U.S.-Mexican report says the 'Gringo Coyote Company' is the single largest group now moving migrants. A binational government study reveals the existence of a transnational group dedicated to trafficking Mexican and Latin American migrants into the United States. The group, known as the "Gringo Coyote Company," has become the largest human trafficking network smuggling undocumented migrants into the United States, the study says. The network uses Mexican employees situated in Michoacan, Jalisco, Guanajuato, Puebla, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and other states to move Mexicans and migrants from Central and South America to the border, where U.S. citizens traffic the migrants...