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Judge is not buying Boogaloo Boi ‘loving father’ appeal undocumented
GoFundMeA undocumented Dutchman “Boogaloo Boi” arrested by the FBI for weapons and immigration charges is a good father who just wants to be at home in Virginia with his 6-year-old daughter, according to his lawyer. time in federal detention with financial support from other members of the Boogaloo movement, a decentralized extremist movement that aims to overthrow the US government by inciting a second civil war. In a decision handed down on Tuesday, Judge Pamela Meade Sargent ordered Jaap Willem Lijbers, who pleaded not guilty, to be detained without bail until his next court hearing scheduled for April 8. Four supporters attended the Lijbers trial on Tuesday, said a close friend of The Daily Beast. A fifth supporter was supposed to be there, but took a rear finish while driving to the court and never made it, he said. Feds Bust Gun-Crazy Boogaloo Ox Who is in the USA illegally “The ICE has control over the title,” the friend said of Lijbers, 26, who traveled to the US on a 90-day tourist visa in 2014 and never left. “If anyone wants to put him in a position to rescue, they have to go through ICE.” As The Daily Beast first reported, the FBI raided Lijbers’ home in Tazewell County, Virginia last week, seizing a military-style Radical Firearms RF-15 rifle along with five magazines, one of which was loaded. According to a criminal complaint filed in the federal court in Virginia, Lijbers was a member of a private Facebook group that included Steven Carrillo, an infamous Boogaloo Boi and former Air Police Sergeant charged with a series of politically motivated police killings in June past. The complaint alleges that Lijbers was also in direct contact with Benjamin Ryan Teeter, a North Carolina Boogaloo Ox who in December pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for trying to provide material support to Hamas, and with Ivan Harrison Hunter, a Boogaloo Ox of the Texas accused of riots after firing at a Minneapolis police station with an AK-47 assault rifle during the civil unrest that followed George Floyd’s death. Using search warrants to subpoena social media records, the FBI identified a Facebook account with the name “Marvin Dorner” who was in contact with Hunter and Teeter. In a set of direct messages, Lijbers – using the alias Marvin Dorner – discussed the trip to Minneapolis during the protests, according to the FBI. Ultimately, he was unable to go and “turned” to participate in local anti-government protests closer to home. The Boogaloos are setting up a large tent for extreme right-wing violence. In a protest in Virginia, Lijbers told Hunter that he was the only one there armed with a gun, and that he “discussed his rifle with one of the officers present and that he basically commanded security. of the event ”. He allegedly sent Hunter a picture of him holding a sign that said, “THE GREAT IGLOO BOIS LAUGH AT THE TYRANIA’S FACE”, and followed up with a message that said, “I showed each policeman that sign.” In another message, he sent Hunter a screenshot of a tweet showing him holding a rifle at the rally. “You could argue, since Jaap was an illegal immigrant, he had no rights to the weapon,” said the friend. “I think that’s the basis for the accusation.” After two GoFundMe campaigns aimed at raising money for Lijbers’ legal expenses were removed by the site for violating his terms of service, other Boogaloo Bois tried to help Lijbers during his pre-trial detention by putting “money in his books,” added the friend. . He allowed the Dutch citizen to make phone calls and buy items from the prison commissioner. The Dutch embassy was also notified of Lijbers’ legal status, according to court records. The far-right movement Boogaloo is made up of several factions. Although some members do in fact advocate a “racial war”, a significant part is focused only on fomenting the total collapse of the US government. The friend, who insisted that Lijbers does not consider himself a white supremacist, said that Lijbers hoped he “would just be deported quickly and it would be over. And then we would work to bring him back to the country through immigration lawyers, etc. And the way he was talking, it looked like the ICE was working with him just to do a quick deportation. And then, at the last minute, they apparently changed their mind. ”Nancy Dickenson-Vicars, the federal defender who represents Lijbers, argued unsuccessfully for his release, stating that Lijbers“ would return to his residence … where he lived at the time of his arrest and regain the paternity of his six-year-old son, with whom he has a very close connection. “Although Lijbers and the child’s mother are no longer romantically involved, they maintain” a friendly relationship, “said Dickenson-Vicars on a bail request. “He has the support of his son’s maternal family, who describes him as [an] excellent father for his son ”, he says. “Her residence is immediately adjacent to her son’s maternal grandmother’s house. The child spends part time with his grandmother and part time with Mr. Lijbers. A member of his son’s maternal family is willing to serve as an outsourced guardian of Mr. Lijbers, ”who“ has not been charged with any crime or traffic violation since he entered the country in 2014. ”“ What he focuses on is that he he just wants to see his daughter, he just wants to be with his daughter, ”said Lijbers’ friend, noting that although Lijbers is in the country illegally, his son is an American citizen. “He wants this to end as soon as possible. I don’t want to say, you know, that he’s scared or something. But like, he definitely doesn’t want to be in the custody of ICE. We are very much against ICE in general. We are in favor of open borders. Like, no Boogaloo Ox voted for Trump, at least not this time. However, I cannot speak for the last time. ”If convicted, Lijbers faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and / or a $ 250,000 fine, plus deportation back to the Netherlands. Read more at The Daily Beast. in your inbox every day. Subscribe now! 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