Spencer now facing only one charge for incident

By Nate Searing
Published/Last Modified on Friday, Aug 29, 2003 - 02:20:35 pm MST

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SIERRA VISTA -- American Border Patrol President Glenn Spencer will be arraigned in Justice Court 5 in Sierra Vista Tuesday after a being formally charged with felony disorderly conduct last week.

Spencer, 66, picked up his summons for the charge from the Cochise County sheriff's office in Sierra Vista on Wednesday. A grand jury indicted him on Aug. 22.

The charge stems from an incident on Aug. 1 in which Spencer allegedly fired a gun near his home at Equestrian Avenue and Yaqui Street.

The shots, which came at about 9:30 p.m., were heard by an off-duty Cochise County sheriff's deputy and a neighbor in the area who reported damage from the gunfire to her garage door, said Carol Capas, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Department.

Spencer was arrested Aug. 2 and initially charged with three counts of disorderly conduct for reckless discharge of the weapon, a count of felony endangerment and a count of criminal damage.

He told police he was attempting to scare away trespassers on his land after deputies did not promptly respond to several robberies at the American Border Patrol headquarters earlier in the week, the Sheriff's Department report stated.

American Border Patrol is a private organization that has garnered national attention for it efforts to monitor illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The nonprofit group is not associated with the U.S. Border Patrol.

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