Leader of US Citizen Border Patrol Group Attacked in Jail

Leader of US Citizen Border Patrol Group Attacked in Jail
Larry Mitchell Hopkins appears in a police booking photo taken at the Dona Ana County Detention Center in Las Cruces, N.M., on April 20, 2019. Dona Ana County Detention Center/Handout/Reuters
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SUNLAND PARK, N.M.—The leader of an armed group that spent two months detaining migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border was hospitalized after he was attacked in jail, his lawyer and authorities said.

Larry Hopkins, 69, also known as Johnny Horton was in a hospital with broken ribs after being attacked on April 23 at the Dona Ana County Detention Center in Las Cruces in southern New Mexico, his attorney, Kelly O'Connell, said.