Secret Service arrests men

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32968, 14 July 1972, Page 9

Secret Service arrests men

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

MIAMI BEACH, July 13.

Two men were arrested today in front of the hotel where Senator George McGovern was staying and charged with possession of concealed weapons, United States secret service agents said.

Secret Service agents said that the arrests were based on information received from the F. 8.1. Both men were taken into custody shortly after Senator McGovern concluded a morning meeting with six Democratic governors in the seventeenth floor penthouse suite of the Doral Hotel. A spokesman for the Miami Beach Police Department said that both men, were members of the black separatist group, Republic of New Africa. The Secret Service said: “Because of multiple identification found on the subjects at the time of their arrest their identities have not been established.” But the police department spokesman said that the men had been identified as John Cox, aged 25, of Mississippi, and Malik Sonebeyatt, aged 32, also of Mississippi. The men were taken to the city gaol where they were interrogated by Secret Ser-1

vice agents, the service said. The two men apparently arrived in a small sports car with Michigan number plates, police said. Inside the car were several scraps of note paper and printed literature dealing with black nationalism, authorities said. The Republic of New Africa was founded in Detroit in 1968 with the goal iof building a new’ nation in five Southern states. At least one of the two men was found inside the hotel. It was not immediately clear whether the second man was seized inside or outside.