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Alleged KKK Member Arrested in Israel

By Jeffrey Heller
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Reuters
posted: 8 HOURS 16 MINUTES AGO
comments: 728
filed under: Crime News, World News
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JERUSALEM (July 14) - When Micky Mayon fled the United States, where he faced firearms charges, the alleged member of an anti-Semitic white supremacist group chose what he might have seen as a perfect hideout -- the Jewish state.
Mayon, 32, of Steelton, Pa., was arrested in Tel Aviv on Monday by an Israeli law enforcement unit that searches for illegal migrants. He had been on the run for two years.
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Micky Mayon
Steelton Borough Police Department / AP

Alleged white supremacist Micky Mayon, here in an undated photo, was a fugitive in the United States. He was detained in Israel on Monday.

"He was here because he thought this was the last place they would look for him," said Sabine Haddad, a spokeswoman for Israel's Interior Ministry which oversees the unit.
Mayon fled the United States after he was suspected of burning the car of a judge who had ordered he stand trial on the firearms charges, Haddad said, basing her information on details provided by Interpol.
Haddad said Israeli authorities were told by Interpol that Mayon belonged to the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group described by the U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League as a racist, anti-Semitic movement.
"The search for Mayon came to a successful conclusion today with the actions in Israel," said U.S. Marshal Michael R. Regan. "Locating and identifying Mayon in a foreign country sends a strong message that you can run, but you cannot hide."
Mayon was being sought by U.S. marshals on two arrest warrants. Charges included illegal possession of a firearm, reckless endangerment and flight to avoid apprehension.
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Haddad said Israeli authorities received information that Mayon was in Tel Aviv and he was found in a "complex and undercover operation."
Mayon, she said, arrived in Israel as a tourist in January 2008. He was issued a one-month visa and stayed on illegally.
"U.S. marshals are on the way here to escort him back to the United States," Haddad said. "He said ... that he did not hold a job while in Israel but made some money by washing dishes and that his parents sent him money to make ends meet."
The Web site of the television show "America's Most Wanted" alleged that Mayon had attended rallies of the Aryan Brotherhood and espoused the beliefs of white power activists.
(Additional reporting by Ori Lewis, Editing by Alastair Macdonald)
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Copyright 2009, Reuters
2009-07-14 09:03:42
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BlakeWelding

06:20 PMJul 14 2009

Www Tish 4 Lin ..........................You are nuts....................don't try and rewrite history.................I lived in the Bay Area during that time............the panthers were a violent.......theymurdered police.......they ambushed innocent people.......they were a outlaw gang........nothing less................

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Thecla8

06:20 PMJul 14 2009

Slavery was the best thing ever to happen to blacks they need to be told right from wrong thats why they go to prison so often.Left to make it on there own they would O.D like M.J .

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EmPtrssn

06:20 PMJul 14 2009

he looks jewish to me!

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Maurice9546

06:18 PMJul 14 2009

GEE MICKEY DON'T YOU KNOW YOU HATE THE JEWS---GUESS HE FORGOT! ISN'T IT AMAZING HOW THESE COWARD RUN FOR SAFETY TO THOSE THEY SPEND THEIR LIVES HATING--LIKE MURDERES ARE SO SCARED TO DIE---COWARDS ALL---

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KayKay4280

06:18 PMJul 14 2009

When did God appoint Whites leader of the whole free world? STOP thinking so highly of yourselves....you bleed red blood and Shi% just like the rest of us. Give me a break!!!!

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MRiffler

06:18 PMJul 14 2009

I'm guessing he went to Israel because Mexico and Nigeria threw him out. I wouldn't call either country "selective," but they do have standards.

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AmTracMarine

06:15 PMJul 14 2009

paymyownway.....It was a Day Camp and it included Black White and Hispanicinner-city kids. They paid a community pool for 1 and 1/2 hrs. pool time but when they arrived there was a problem. They have been since been asked back. Please get the story straight. I'm going to keep busting you until you stopmaking sh*t up.

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paymyownway

06:14 PMJul 14 2009

AM TRAC MARINE.................................nice job cutting/pasting.....................I do not know a single white person who 'BLAMES ALL OUR PROBLEMS ON BLACKS." I will however challenge you and other blacks to change the statistics regarding blacks in America (crime and welfare).

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Scott763

06:14 PMJul 14 2009

Funny the Hussein organanized crime racket doesn't go after the New Black Pnather Party or his love children ACORN. Only go after the white man to as HUSSIEN says to put the WHITE'S in there place. Another Civil War is COMING thanks to the HATE MONGERING LIBOA$$ES. You know the party of SLAVERY that HUSSEIN and the LIBOA$$ES belong to.

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BlakeWelding

06:13 PMJul 14 2009

The gang of three............obama the dangerous Kenyan socialist........ayers the anti-American terrorist..............wright the sharptonesq radical racist................come the next election.....the lame duck,howdy doody lookin, illegal immigrant is goin down.................

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