{"id":94429,"date":"2020-01-14T10:15:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T14:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=94429"},"modified":"2020-01-15T08:33:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T12:33:39","slug":"94429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94429","title":{"rendered":"Larry Mitchell \u201cTubby\u201d Hopkins \u2013 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hopkins-at-militia-base-camp.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nate Thayer and AW1Ed have previously featured Larry Mitchell \u201cTubby\u201d Hopkins, AKA \u201cJohnny Horton\u201d (but NOT Johnny Horton, Jr., the entertainer) in articles on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nate-thayer.com\/the-fantasy-life-of-an-armed-anti-immigrant-militia-leader-a-portrait-of-a-grifter\/\">Nate Thayer\u2019s blog<\/a><\/em> and cross-posted by AW1Ed <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87984\">here at TAH<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Short version:\u00a0 Hopkins appears to be yet another so-called &#8220;militia&#8221; leader, a grifter, a convicted felon, an imposter &#8211; in short, he&#8217;s just an all-around\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>low-life bastard<\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;fine individual&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here\u2019s an update on the guy.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested last year on multiple charges.\u00a0 Seems the tool decided to plead guilty to yet another felony.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>On 2 January 2020 Hopkins <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-nm\/pr\/larry-mitchell-hopkins-pleads-guilty-federal-firearm-charge-new-mexico-0\">pleaded guilty to Federal firearms charges \u2013 specifically, to unlawfully possessing firearms as a convicted felon<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 He\u2019s currently in custody awaiting sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s looking at a possible 10 years in Federal prison \u2013 and since he has a prior felony conviction, I\u2019m guessing he\u2019ll get some time.\u00a0 But I\u2019d be quite surprised if he gets the max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nate Thayer and AW1Ed have previously featured Larry Mitchell \u201cTubby\u201d Hopkins, AKA \u201cJohnny Horton\u201d (but &hellip; <a title=\"Larry Mitchell \u201cTubby\u201d Hopkins \u2013 Update\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94429\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Larry Mitchell \u201cTubby\u201d Hopkins \u2013 Update<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94451,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94429\/revisions\/94451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}