Army Sgt. Haab Won’t Be Prosecuted
Charles Johnson
Thu Apr 21, 2005 at 7:13 pm PDT • Views: 322
Arizona residents have the right to make a citizen’s arrest, and the reservist who held migrants at gunpoint won’t be prosecuted. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas won’t prosecute an Army reservist who held seven Mexican men at gunpoint at a southwestern Arizona rest stop.
Thomas says Sergeant Patrick Haab did not commit a crime and was making a lawful citizen’s arrest when he detained six illegal immigrants and the man smuggling them.
The 24-year-old Haab was arrested April 10th by Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies after holding the immigrants at gunpoint at a rest stop along Interstate Eight.
Haab returned from Iraq in October and has lived in Mesa since January. He was released from jail April 14th on a ten-thousand-dollar cash bond.
Thomas says Arizona citizens have the right to make a citizen’s arrest if either a federal or state felony offense has been committed in their presence, or if they believe the person they intend to arrest has committed it.
Frank says: