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DOUGLAS - A man who believed in armed patrols of the border was arrested Wednesday night, and another man, described as his bodyguard, was wounded by an FBI agent. As FBI agents were in the process of arresting Casey James Nethercott in the parking lot of the Safeway store in Douglas, Kalen Robert Riddle was shot. The incident took place around 11:15 p.m. Charlene Thornton, special agent in charge of the FBI's Phoenix office, said both men engage in threatening activities as an arrest warrant was served. "Actions taken by Nethercott and Riddle led one of the FBI agents to...

TWO VIDEO LINKS ON RIGHT HAND SIDE PLAYLIST!! An FBI agent shot an acquaintance of a border watch group member while trying to serve an arrest warrant, FBI officials said Thursday. The shooting happened about 11:15 p.m. Wednesday in a grocery store parking lot in Douglas along the southeastern Arizona border with Mexico. According to the FBI, the agent was trying to serve an arrest warrant on Casey Nethercott of Douglas. Nethercott is a known member of Ranch Rescue, a group that works to protect private property along the southern U.S. border. Ranch Rescue and several other unauthorized groups have...

FBI shooting leaves vigilante's cohort critical LUKE TURF Tucson Citizen A 22-year-old man shot by an FBI agent in Douglas Wednesday night was in critical condition early this morning at University Medical Center, officials said. Kalen Riddle was shot in a Safeway parking lot as FBI agents tried to arrest Casey Nethercott, a border militia organizer, the FBI said yesterday. When agents confronted the men, "actions taken by Nethercott and Riddle led one of the FBI agents to fire his weapon at Riddle, who was wounded," according to an FBI news release. Nethercott, 37, was arrested in the parking lot...

By Ignacio Ibarra ARIZONA DAILY STAR Convicted felon and militia organizer Casey James Nethercott was arrested by FBI agents Wednesday night in Douglas in connection with a tense confrontation late last month with Border Patrol agents at his nearby ranch. Kalen Riddle, 22, of Aberdeen, Wash., a member of Nethercott's Arizona Guard, was shot and seriously injured during the arrest, which took place in a Safeway shopping center on Douglas' west side...........

Posted on Wed, Jun. 16, 2004 Immigrant says he was beaten, threatened with dog By Karen Brooks Star-Telegram Border Bureau HEBBRONVILLE - A Salvadoran immigrant told a jury Tuesday that he feared for his life after members of an armed citizen-patrol group caught him sneaking across a local ranch. Edwin Mancia, 26, testified in Spanish that he was beaten on the head with a pistol and threatened with a Rottweiler dog. "They told us we were going to go to the gate to wait for a man," Mancia testified through an interpreter. "I thought they were going to kill us...

A member of the civilian border patrol group Ranch Rescue was arrested in Douglas yesterday on charges stemming from an illegal-imprisonment case in Texas, an FBI spokeswoman said.