The arrests of three Canadians — including one who admitted to being “an associate of a white supremacist group” — were listed as separate incidents in the latest segregated compilation of Border Patrol activity provided weekly by the agency’s Blaine Sector office.
The report is for the week of Oct. 18 to Oct. 24.
No Border Patrol arrests on the North Olympic Peninsula have been listed since the Sept. 20 apprehension of a Guatemalan citizen in the Forks jail.
The person was taken into custody after the agency was called by the Forks Police Department for translation assistance.
The foreign national had been charged with under the influence-physical control.
The report is always limited to one page regardless of the number of arrests made, includes only those arrests selected by the agency for public release and does not include apprehensions that result in ongoing investigations.
The Border Patrol does not provide details of the apprehensions beyond those provided in the reports.
“The fact that it is not included in the blotter does not mean there have not been apprehensions in Clallam and Jefferson counties,” agency spokesman Jeffrey Jones said.
The following incidents were listed in the latest “weekly blotter”:
■ A Canadian citizen was apprehended Oct. 20 after illegally entering the U.S. at the Peace Arch in Blaine and was processed for removal.
■ Agents encountered a Canadian citizen wearing a backpack and walking along Boundary Road on Oct. 21 north of Lynden who admitted to illegally being in the U.S.
“Subject also claimed to be an associate of a white supremacist group,” the report said.
The person was processed for removal from the U.S.
■ Agents who responded to a request for assistance Oct. 21 from the Ferndale Police Department had admitted to an officer that he had entered into the U.S. through the woods earlier that evening.
He was arrested and processed for reinstatement of a prior removal.
The Blaine Sector covers Alaska, Oregon and the western half of Washington with 322 agents, including 36 who operate out of the Port Angeles station, which covers Clallam and Jefferson counties and which will have a new $5.7 million headquarters two miles east of downtown.
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Senior Staff Writer Paul Gottlieb can be reached at 360-417-3536 or at paul.gottlieb@peninsuladailynews.com.
