Thread: Duane 'Dog' Chapman Arrest a Conspiracy?

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By Jim Roberts
Sep 15, 2006

Duane 'Dog' Chapman is under arrest in Hawaii. The Mexican government wants Duane 'Dog' Chapman returned to Mexico to face charges and US Marshals say they took Chapman and the two co-stars from his reality show into custody on charges of illegal detention and conspiracy.

Duane 'Dog' Chapman Arrest a Conspiracy?
Duane 'Dog' Chapman Arrest a Conspiracy?

The Associated Press reports that the charges stem from Chapman's capture of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster on June 18, 2003, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, said Marshals spokeswoman Nikki Credic in Washington.

Chapman's capture of Luster, who had fled the country while on trial on charges he raped three women, catapulted the 53-year-old bounty hunter to fame and led to the reality series on A&E.

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Now Chapman is alleging a conspiracy. He may have a point - fans are absolutely outraged. Rita Crosby of MSNBC writes on her blog and gives a detailed analysis of what is happening to this point.

What so many people are stunned about, including myself, as I’ve covered this story closely for years, is why, three years after the fact, the Mexican government is suddenly demanding Dog Chapman to come back to their country, claiming he’s now a fugitive from justice. What happened behind the scenes in the last few weeks or months to cause the Mexican government to make such a move?

Dog’s wife Beth told Rita that Dog told her in the last 24-hours, “This is outrageous. I’m clearly being traded for some people in Mexico that the Americans want. There’s clearly a deal here.”

He also said he’s worried because he’s had virtually no access to his own family and hasn’t gotten his blood pressure medicine that he normally takes. So was there a sudden deal behind the scenes? Or as some of our viewers have suggested, was there a payoff to someone in Mexico to make this happen out of the blue?

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This story will continue to develop as fans and others are outraged that Chapman may have to return to Mexico face charges.

--Jim Roberts writes from Manhattan


A deal?


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Mexico extradites drug kingpin to face trial in Calif.

By TRACI CARL, Associated Press Writer

Saturday, September 16, 2006

(09-16) 17:47 PDT MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) --

Mexico extradited accused drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix to the United States on Saturday, making him the first major Mexican drug lord to be sent north to face trial on drug charges.

Mexico's extradition of the man who once ran the Arellano Felix drug clan was a victory for U.S. officials who have been pushing Mexico to send them more drug lords.

After serving a 10-year sentence in Mexico, Arellano Felix was loaded into a helicopter to the Mexican border town of Matamoros, then flown across and handed over to Texas officials in Brownsville. He will be taken to California to face trial on charges stemming from a 1980 case in which he allegedly sold cocaine to an undercover police officer in the United States.

U.S. authorities requested Arellano Felix's extradition on June 2, 2003. A federal judge approved that request in 2004, but it took two years for the Foreign Relations Department approve the extradition.

Francisco Rafael was arrested in December 1993 in Tijuana and was convicted under Mexico's tough weapons laws rather than for drug offenses. He was the oldest of seven brothers in a family accused of running what was throughout the 1990s one of Mexico's largest and most-violent drug smuggling gangs.

Most of the Arellano Felix brothers have been arrested or killed, weakening the cartel. But Mexican and U.S. officials said the gang still moves tons of cocaine and marijuana into the United States from its operations base in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego.

One brother, Francisco Javier Arellano Felix, was captured on a fishing boat last month by the U.S. Coast Guard in international waters off the coast of La Paz, Mexico.

Benjamin Arellano Felix, reputedly the planning chief of the gang, was arrested in March 2002 in Puebla, east of Mexico City. He is still being held in a Mexican jail.

Another brother, Ramon Arellano Felix, was shot to death a month earlier in the Pacific tourist port of Mazatlan. Police say he had been the group's feared enforcer, in charge of killing to settle scores.

Eduardo Arellano Felix is still at large, and not much is known of the gang's other brothers and sisters.

Mexico has fought many extraditions in the past, arguing that suspects must face justice here first. It also refuses to extradite suspects who face the death penalty in other countries.

Capital punishment is illegal here, and a 1978 extradition treaty with the United States allows Mexico to deny extradition if a person faces the death penalty in another country.

In November, Mexico's Supreme Court removed an obstacle that had prevented many of the country's most notorious criminals from facing U.S. justice when it overturned a 4-year ban on the extradition of suspects facing life in prison.

Mexico last year extradited 41 suspected criminals to the United States, up from 34 in 2004; 31 in 2003; 25 in 2002; 17 in 2001; and 12 in 2000, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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By Malia Zimmerman mailto:Malia@hawaiireporter.com

9/15/2006

The U.S. government is appeasing the Mexican government at the expense of three
of its own reputable American citizens and their families -- even though the
country hasn’t been a good neighbor or done anything to stop drug trafficking,
illegal immigration and other criminal activity brought by Mexican citizens
across the American border.

The U.S. Office of International Affairs in Washington D.C. gave an order
earlier this week for the arrest of the Bounty Hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman, 53
www.dogthebountyhunter.com , his son Leland Chapman, 29, and his brother Timothy
Chapman, 41, with the intent of extraditing them to Mexico.

The trio are well known for their reality show on A&E, based on their work in
Hawaii and the mainland as bounty hunters where they chase down and apprehend
criminals who've violated the terms of their bail. They not only put on a
popular entertaining show and promote law and order, but they run a
compassionate and conservative operation through their business, Da Kine Bail
Bonds http://tinyurl.com/ob8sx . They pray during every television episode
before they apprehend a suspect. They preach to the suspects about Jesus Christ,
getting off of drugs, and turning their life around. And they even feature a
picture of President George W. Bush in their shows.

Hawaii’s head U.S. Marshall, Mark “Dutch” Hanohano, says the order for their
arrest came from Washington D.C. The warrant was prepared Wednesday and executed
by seven deputies without incident at 6:30 a.m. Thursday morning at the
Chapmans’ Hawaii Portlock home, Hanohano says.

The Chapmans made an appearance in Hawaii’s federal court Thursday and will be
back in court Friday.

The irony is they are being arrested for doing what American law enforcement
failed to do.

The Chapmans went to Mexico in 2003 in hot pursuit of a serial rapist, who fled
the United States after being convicted in a California court for three rapes.
The target was the Max Factor heir Andrew Luster
www.answers.com/topic/andrew-luster , who is now serving 104 years in prison in
the United States as a result of their work. They apprehended Luster on June 18,
2003, and he was jailed the next day.

But rather than cheering the Chapmans for removing a convicted serial rapist
from their country before he struck again, the Mexican government charged the
Chapmans with illegal detention and conspiracy, throwing them in a cold, dark
and dangerous Mexican prison for refusing to turn over Luster to them. Bounty
hunting is illegal in Mexico.

The case -- and their treatment by the Mexican government -- launched them into
the international spotlight, and eventually landed them the A&E gig, now the
most popular series on the network for the past two years.

The Chapmans were supposed to appear at a court hearing there on July 15, 2003,
but wisely never showed.

Now instead of defending three citizens who have collectively rounded up an
estimated 6,000 bail jumpers and criminals in the last quarter of a century,
through their offices on three Hawaiian islands, the U.S. government is willing
to turn them over to what could essentially turn out to be their death sentence.
Mexican prisons are not patrolled by the ACLU and prisoners don’t have cable
television, private cells, and three meals a day or the same rights as they
would in America.

So the question is why? Why is the U.S. Office of International Affairs having
them arrested and extradited? Why is that office throwing three of its most
famous, do-good citizens to a lawless country run by thugs who will take cash
over principal any day? At what political price are these government bureaucrats
selling the Chapmans to a foreign government?

It is outrageous that the federal government is endangering the lives of these
three men.

Hawaii law enforcement officers muttered something about an international treaty
with Mexico, but the bottom line is the United States owes Mexico nothing except
the return of its hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens and all the crack and
cocaine smuggled from there to America’s 50 states.

Chapman's publicist, Mona Wood, released a statement to the media on Thursday
morning, saying her client will be vindicated. “This is obviously a very
upsetting time for the Chapman family. Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman is
a true modern-day hero. He arrests the bad guys -- he is definitely not one of
them.”

She’s right -- he is a hero. Americans should rally, write their Congressman and
the president, and demand freedom now for "Dog" and the other two Chapmans.

Congress should intervene on the Chapmans’ behalf and open an investigation into
the behavior of the heads of this so-called Office of International Affairs.

Whoever gave that arrest and extradition order should be fired and appropriately
humiliated in the national and international press for making the American
government appear hostile and unjust to its own citizens and unethical, and for
embarrassing America on an international level.

The Chapmans deserve the thanks of all Americans -- including local and federal
law enforcement -- for rounding up so many criminals who jumped their bail with
no intention of serving jail time.

Just ask Andrew Lusters’ three rape victims who can rest a little easier knowing
their seemingly untouchable and untraceable attacker is behind bars for life.

The Chapmans made the streets safer. They should be rewarded -- not punished --
and they should be put back to work. There are, after all, still thousands of
real criminals to catch.

Reach Malia Zimmerman, editor and president of Hawaii Reporter, via email at
mailto:Malia@hawaiireporter.com

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Reach Malia Zimmerman, editor and president of Hawaii Reporter, via email at
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Why?

That's what everyone wants to know....WHY?

For what purpose?

A "deal" to get another Mexican on our public payroll for selling cocaine to an undercover cop when they gave IMMUNITY to a drug smuggler for hauling almost a ton of marijuana into the United States?

WHY?

Nothing this Administration does makes sense because they are all INSANE!!