Anti-Mexican "Tombstone Vigilante" Arrested
by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan
Los Angeles, Alta California - January 29, 2003 - (ACN) Chris Simcox,
the racist Los Angeles school teacher who left the city to go to Wyatt
Earp's Tombstone, Arizona to create an anti-Mexican armed militia, was
arrested Sunday by Federal Park Rangers for possession of a loaded and concealed weapon, disorderly conduct and interfering with a law
enforcement function on federal government land.
The vigilante was arrested and detained for three hours inside the Coronado National Monument Park that is just west of Naco, Arizona and along the US/Mexico border. He was charged with three counts of breaking federal law. Further infractions or crimes by Simcox may result in federal imprisonment.
Chris Simcox left Los Angeles after his wife divorced him and after his educational consulting business collapsed. He left his elementary teaching job at a Los Angeles private school under suspicious circumstances. He ended up in Tombstone, Arizona where he utilized his newspaper, the "Tombstone Tumbleweed", to call for the formation of an "armed militia" to "stop the Mexicans from coming over the border."
The Chief of Federal Park Rangers, Than Weigand, said that Simcox was arrested after apparently "hunting for Mexicans inside the park." He was accompanied by two other vigilantes who were not arrested because they were not carrying concealed weapons. Chief Weigand said that his Rangers confiscated items that Simcox was carrying. The property included a loaded pistol, two walkie-talkies, a police scanner, a cellular telephone, a digital camera and what appeared to be a toy figure of Wyatt Earp on his horsie.
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