‘Border Militiaman’ Runs Away With a 15-Year-Old Girl

Now there’s a wanted poster for him up in Three Points, Arizona.
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You could chalk up some of border militiaman Todd Hezlitt’s troubles to bad luck - who knew when he associated with Shawna Forde in 2008 that she would end up killing people the next year and drag his name into the mud?

But his most recent trouble - deputies say the 38-year-old Hezlitt ran away with a 15-year-old girlfriend - seems to be of his own doing.

Hezlitt was arrested in April and accused of two counts of sexual conduct with a minor, a student in the Flowing Wells Unified School District. Then on June 1, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department reported that Hezlitt and the girl had both disappeared, apparently together.

He’s facing felony charges of sexual conduct with a minor and has violated the terms of his release from jail by contacting the girl, causing an arrest warrant to be issued, Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Sgt. Dawn Barkman said.

It’s Hezlitt’s latest passage under a spotlight that has repeatedly shown the flaws in a man who made his name in Southern Arizona as an ex-Marine patrolling areas south of Three Points for drug smugglers. Even doing that, he got mixed up with murderers and for a while was falsely rumored to have been involved in a fatal home invasion in Arivaca.

[…]

[While in the Pima County Sheriff’s Department academy], Hezlitt was already involved in the activity that would absorb much of his time in coming years - going out on independent, armed patrols of the borderlands, trying to detect smugglers, spending years in teams of off-duty or former military members that Adams organized. That activity brought Hezlitt, a 5-foot 3-inch livewire, into contact with border-militia leader Shawna Forde - and it got him in trouble.

In fall 2008, Hezlitt and Forde both appeared in a news story on Norwegian TV about Americans who were patrolling the borderlands on their own. When Forde and two others were arrested in June 2009 and later convicted of the home-invasion murders of an Arivaca man and his 9-year-old daughter, that appearance led some to believe Hezlitt was involved in Forde’s group, Minutemen American Defense, or even the murders. [Emphasis added.]

[…]

If you’re hanging around with Shawna Forde and patrolling the US-Mexican border with weapons, that’s not bad luck. That’s maliciousness, stupidity, or both. So is running away with a 15 year old.

I didn’t remember that Shawna Forde went on Norwegian TV. It didn’t seem significant in 2010 when I was following Forde’s murder trial… but it sure does now. Maybe that’s why ‘Fjordman’ [Peder Jensen] thought Mexico was going to take over the US. He was listening to Arizona racists.

Todd Russell Hezlitt ARIZONA DAILY STAR FILE

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18 comments
1 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 4:28:35pm

Once again a 'law n' order' person seems to be unable to to grasp either concept.

2 wrenchwench  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 5:41:53pm

Thanks for the promo.

Time to go home. Instead of the usual cute kitteh exit, here's my favorite photo (so far) from the biggest fire in New Mexico's history:

Image: 7157543781_45c7e2f3bb_h.jpg

Someone should 'shop Smokey some bigger eyes.

3 KronoGhazi  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 5:54:35pm

Law and Order is for all the Mexicans and Liberals.

Our kind of Law and Order.

4 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Tears  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:00:21pm

re: #2 wrenchwench

Thanks for the promo.

Time to go home. Instead of the usual cute kitteh exit, here's my favorite photo (so far) from the biggest fire in New Mexico's history:

Image: 7157543781_45c7e2f3bb_h.jpg

Someone should 'shop Smokey some bigger eyes.

If you didn't understand what they were doing you'd almost think they were firemen in the Fahrenheit 451 sense.

5 Kragar  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:07:18pm

There's got to be something in the water in Arizona.

6 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:08:48pm

re: #5 Kragar

There's got to be something in the water in Arizona.

I think Arizona's vibe and space attracts separatists and people who fantasize themselves beyond American laws

7 Kragar  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:10:38pm

My older daughter has been feeling bad, so I asked her "You feeling ok, Pumpkin?"

My youngest chimes in, "Pumpkin? So we can gut her, stick a candle in her and stick her on the porch?"

8 Ben G. Hazi  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:17:18pm

re: #5 Kragar

There's got to be something in the water in Arizona.

Or maybe there needs to be...like Quaaludes or something.

9 Kragar  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:18:42pm

re: #8 Gitarzan

Or maybe there needs to be...

They tried G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate and look how that turned out.

10 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Tears  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:24:11pm

re: #9 Kragar

They tried G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate and look how that turned out.

Which results unexpectedly in Fast and Extremely Furious.

11 RadicalModerate  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:26:58pm

So, this is yet another nationalist, (in this case, accused) violent felon, along with the convicted racist murderer Shawna Forde, and now-dead racist murderer J.T. Ready, who are/were close pals with Sheriff Joe "Stormfront" Arpaio?

Color me surprised.

12 KronoGhazi  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:33:07pm

re: #6 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]

I think Arizona's vibe and space attracts separatists and people who fantasize themselves beyond American laws

..and meth. AKA: pain, cowboy coke, crank, and in Hawaii... ice.

13 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Jun 9, 2012 6:37:50pm

re: #12 Kronocide

..and meth. AKA: pain, cowboy coke, crank, and in Hawaii... ice.

When you realize how meth makes people into monsters, you realize why cops, feds and bail bondsmen hate meth as much as they do. Watching a drug destroy people has got to be extremely painful.

14 BARACK THE VOTE  Sun, Jun 10, 2012 6:31:46am

Great page, wrenchwench.

15 sean6886politik  Sun, Jun 10, 2012 1:54:06pm

Looks like they only removed his hood for the picture, not his white robe.

16 wrenchwench  Sun, Jun 10, 2012 5:44:34pm

re: #15 sean6886politik

Looks like they only removed his hood for the picture, not his white robe.

They drape all suspects like that for their mug shots in that jurisdiction (I don't know if it's just that county or the whole state).

17 CuriousLurker  Sun, Jun 10, 2012 6:40:42pm

re: #16 wrenchwench

Great post, ww.

18 Patricia Kayden  Mon, Jun 11, 2012 4:30:50pm

Poor girl!! Hope they find them soon.

Not surprising that the militia movement is full of crackpots and law breakers.


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