ILL IMM Sheriff: Gates County, NC barricade subject on terror watch list

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Sheriff: Gates County barricade subject on terror watch list

GATES COUNTY, N.C. (WAVY) — A man who was taken into custody following a barricade situation in Gates County earlier this week was found to be on a terrorist watch list and had been in the area for…
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GATES COUNTY, N.C. (WAVY) — A man who was taken into custody following a barricade situation in Gates County earlier this week was found to be on a terrorist watch list and had been in the area for six months.

1 in custody following barricade situation in Gates Co.

Gates County Sheriff’s deputies were sent to U.S. 13 South and Barfield Road for reports of gunshots, and they got to the scene and found a man, later identified as Awet Hagos, standing outside of a business discharging a firearm.

Hagos became combative and tried to disarm a deputy of their rifle as he fled into his residence, the sheriff’s office said, but was later taken into custody after a four-hour standoff. Gates County Sheriff Ray Campbell said he responded aggressively to the deputies, and they had to Tase him several times during the scuffle.

Hagos was charged with three counts of assault on a government official, three counts of resisting a public officer and one count of carrying a concealed weapon.

Campbell said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement got in touch and said that, after running his fingerprints, it determined that Hagos was on the terrorist watch list and had been in the area for about six months.

Campbell said Hagos, who had previously lived in Haiti and is from an area of Africa near the Yemen border, had been brought into the area by the owner of the Carolina Quick Stop store, where the incident took place, according to the sheriff’s office.

Hagos, who has to be adjudicated on state charges before being picked up by ICE, is in the Albemarle District Jail under $100,000 bond, Campbell said.

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Robinson pushes White House for details on terror watchlist suspect arrested in Gates County​



RALEIGH, N.C. (WRAL) - The public deserves more information after police in rural North Carolina arrested a man whose name allegedly appears on a federal terrorist watch list, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson said Monday.

WRAL says the suspect in question, Awet Hagos, wasn’t accused by Gates County sheriff’s deputies of engaging in any terrorist activity. Local authorities arrested him last week for resisting arrest, carrying a concealed weapon and assaulting a public official. After he was fingerprinted, multiple media reports indicate, the federal government reached out to inform the deputies not to release Hagos because he was on a terrorism watchlist.

Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, held a press conference Monday to criticize the federal government for not making more details public like how Hagos got into the country, why he’s on the watchlist or what he was doing in Eure — a small, rural community in northeastern North Carolina near the Virginia border.

“We deserve answers to these questions,” Robinson said.

Law enforcement officials frequently keep details of ongoing investigations secret. But on Monday Robinson sent a letter to Democratic President Joe Biden asking for more details to be released. It was also signed by the top Republican state legislative leaders, Sen. Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore. In a press advisory Monday morning, Robinson called it an “urgent public safety matter.”

When asked if he had discussed his concerns with Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat who is in charge of law enforcement and public safety in North Carolina — and who enjoys a good relationship with Biden — Robinson told reporters that he sent Cooper the same letter he sent Biden on Monday morning.

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A spokesman for Cooper said he wasn’t aware of any additional efforts by Robinson to reach out; the governor and lieutenant governor have long had a strained relationship and Cooper has endorsed Robinson’s opponent for governor this year, Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein.

Robinson said he’s concerned by “a pattern of non-cooperation” from the Biden administration with Republican officials like himself. He pointed to reports of a new detention facility for migrant children that the federal government recently opened in Greensboro, which remains empty for now. He and several other GOP elected officials have asked for more information about that center, Robinson said, but have received no answers.
 
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Jake Grey

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I once considered Gates County as a good place to move to/bug out to/retire to because it is extremely rural and had a very low population density. But, it is way too close to Norfolk and folks from that whole area are moving to Gates County in droves.
 
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Publius

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Jake Grey said:
I once considered Gates County as a good place to move to/bug out to/retire to because it is extremely rural and had a very low population density. But, it is way too close to Norfolk and folks from that whole area are moving to Gates County in droves.
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We noticed a similar problem some years ago and seemed to be bringing their crime problem with them.
 
Illini Warrior

Illini Warrior

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Question NOT seemingly being asked - and should be - it states that some convenience store owner brought this guy to the area - ?????

WTF? - who the hell is that store owner? - how is he connected up to people along those lines - why is he giving them shelter?
 
Sacajawea

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Especially in that county! (Yeah, it's just an hour or south of Chesapeake, VA and the problem children from across state lines have been drifting that direction for YEARS.)
 
ShadowMan

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Illini Warrior said:
WTF? - who the hell is that store owner? - how is he connected up to people along those lines - why is he giving them shelter?
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EXACTLY!?!?! The next question should be HOW MANY MORE are there and HOW do we get out of our country!?!?!?! Are we going to have to pull another Eisenhower's Operation Wetback (1953-1954) and round up and sweep these illegals from our country? I can just hear the libtards screams now.....such music to my ears!! :rofl:

But on a SERIOUS side note, just how many of these poor downtrodden immigrants are actually terrorist plants. Just what the hell is the Deep State and the Traitors That Be in government thinking?!? Do they REALLY want to start a civil war? Just how freaking STUPID are they?!?
 
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