Border Wingnut Vigilante Wants Ranch back
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This wackjob felon and failed bounty hunter had surveillance towers and armored vehicles on his former ranch and he imprisoned two illegal immigrants. Now he’s whining about the consequences in court, hoping to leverage a new law that’s constitutionally unsound.
An Arizona border activist is seeking to take advantage of a new state law restricting court awards to illegal immigrants to avoid paying nearly a million dollars that a Texas judge ruled he owes two Salvadoran migrants he detained in 2003.
The activist, Casey J. Nethercott, a former leader of the border-watching group Ranch Rescue, has already been forced to turn over his border ranch to the migrants, Edwin Alfredo Mancía Gonzáles and Fátima del Socorro Leiva Medina. They sold the 60-acre property near Douglas, Ariz., for $45,000, and their lawyers at the Southern Poverty Law Center continue to seek the rest of the $850,000 judgment against Mr. Nethercott.
Mr. Nethercott, a onetime bounty hunter who is acting as his own lawyer, is seeking the return of the ranch, where he had a shooting range, observation tower and armored vehicles, and he indicated in court papers that he wants the entire judgment against him thrown out.