KKK Leader Arrested In Israel

White supremacist who is one of America's 100 Most Wanted Criminals nabbed in Tel Aviv.

Senior KKK member arrested in Tel Aviv
By YAAKOV LAPPIN • Jerusalem Post

A high-ranking white supremacist on the run from US federal authorities was arrested on Monday night in a south Tel Aviv hideout.

33-year-old Micky Louis Mayon, one of America's 100 Most Wanted criminals, and a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was arrested in a Florentine apartment by the National Immigration Authority's newly formed Oz enforcement unit.

Mayon is wanted in the US on charges of racist assaults, setting fire to vehicles belonging to federal agents, and a host of violence incidents.

The Oz unit was acting on intelligence relayed by Interpol, which informed authorities here that Mayon had entered Israel illegally.

He is said to have moved apartments often in order to evade police, but his efforts proved fruitless on Monday when a delicate operation by the Oz unit saw officers break into his hideout and arrest him.

Oz unit members have the powers of a police officer but can only use them in cases of illegal entry into the country.

Mayon was the subject of an American arrest operation in November 2007, but officers soon realized he had flown to Israel on a one-way ticket. Earlier that year, he reportedly fired his gun in the air repeatedly after being involved in an argument with an African-American. US authorities have described him as a dangerous fugitive.

Oz Unit head Tziki Sela said Mayon was surprised to be arrested, but cooperated with the officers. He has been transferred to a Holon jail facility, where he underwent an immigration hearing. He was then taken to an Israel Prison Authority jail facility.

Update 12:30 PM – Ha'aretz adds Mayon's pregnant Israeli girlfriend turned him in:

Arrested KKK man turned over to Israeli police by friend
By Dana Weiler-Pollak • Haaretz

An alleged Ku Klux Klan member arrested in Tel Aviv this week was turned over to police by an Israeli friend, it emerged on Tuesday.

Micky Louis Mayon, 33, was detained in Tel Aviv's Florentin neighborhood on Monday night by members of the newly-created "Oz" task force, which was formed to replace the Immigration Police.

Mayon has been on the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's list of 100 most wanted criminals for several federal crimes. He is suspected of belonging to the KKK, of burning vehicles belonging to federal U.S. judges and several allegations of severe violence.

During a preliminary inquiry on Monday, Mayon said he had been living with an Israeli woman he met four months ago. He told immigration police that he informed his friend of his past after she revealed to him that she was pregnant. His activities apparently frightened her and caused her to turn him in.

Authorities do not know whether Mayon was romantically involved with the woman, given that he had never requested permission to stay in Israel on those grounds.

Judges were to decide on Tuesday whether Mayon would be extradited to the United States.

Comments

[A. Nuran]

I guess he thought it was the last place anyone would look for him.

[Yochanan Lavie]

The KKK took my bubbeleh away (apologies: Ramones)

He went away for yom tov day
Said he's going to T.A. [Tel Aviv]
But he never got there
he never got there
he never got there, they say
[x2]

[Chorus: x2]
The KKK took bubbelah away
They took her away
Away from me

Now I don't know
Where my bubbeleh can be
They took her from me
They took her from me
I don't know
Where my baby can be
They took her from me
They took her from me

Ringy, ringy, ringy
Up the Prime Minister
And find out
Whether he's with her
Ringy, ringy, ringy
Up the Mossad
And find out if
My bubbeleh's bad
Yeah, yeah, yeah

oy oy oy oy oy oy
oy oy oy oy oy oy

He ran away from parole
Said he's going to Israel
But he never got there
he never got there
he never got there, they say
[x2]

[Chorus: x3]

The KKK took my bubbeleh away
They took my maidel
They took my bubbeleh away

[yidandahalf]

How is this guy a "leader" in the KKK? It just says he is a member. The real issue seems to be his assaults on federal agents for which I do not blame him.

[MisterApikoros]

So assaulting Federal agents is OK in your book?

[JewishCynic]

Maybe he was following the news and realized he could go to Israel, dress as an haredi and beat up as many jews as he wanted without fearing prosecution.

[MisterApikoros]

Good one, JC.

Apparently he had a Jewish girlfriend who dropped shekel on him when she realized how dangerous he was.

[yidandahalf]

Look, you never know if this guy likes Jews or not. He may very well actually like Jews despite the its being said he is KKK. In fact he may admire them. This is not so farfetched you know.

[MisterApikoros]

He liked Jewish pussy. Not the same thing.

The various news reports say he was KKK and a skinhead.