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“They are not our friend, believe me,” Trump said, before disparaging Mexican immigrants: “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime..."
John Bishop, the former lead pastor of Vancouver, Washinton's Living Hope Church, is facing a federal drug charge in U.S. District Court in Southern California for allegedly trying to smuggle more than 280 pounds of marijuana into the country from Mexico.
Moskowitz said this case was the most bizarre in his more than 30 years on the bench. He noted that Bishop had served in the Air Force, been a pastor, started Living Hope Church on the idea of serving others, helped the poor and set up a foundation to build wells in impoverished countries. His ministry drew thousands to Portland’s Rose Garden arena during a massive Easter service in 2007.
The prosecution, however, learned that Bishop had made many trips across the border running marijuana, and had contemplated transporting Mexican heroin to Vancouver.
“He reached the bottom, in my opinion, when he considered having (someone) murdered,” Moskowitz said, referring to information contained in sealed court documents. “That is the total opposite of what he was doing helping out the less fortunate. How could he stand for anything if he had someone murdered?”
Bishop initially told law enforcement that he had transported marijuana across the border 15 times since April 2016. But a review of Bishop’s border-crossing records shows he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in the Volkswagen more than 57 times between Jan. 24, 2017, and his arrest in December.
