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Here is a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
 Florida Resident Deported to Lithuania for Concealing Activities in World
War II
 To: National Desk
 Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, Public Affairs, 202-514-2007

   WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice
announced today that a Florida resident has been deported to
Lithuania for entering the United States illegally by hiding his
service in a Nazi-sponsored unit that murdered civilians during World
War II.
   The Department said that the U.S. Immigration Court entered the
deportation order last month against Antanas Mineikis of Gulfport,
Florida, a 74-year old former motel owner, who had admitted taking
part in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution.
   Mineikis departed from Miami yesterday and arrived today in
Vilnius, Lithuania.
   It was the first time that a person stripped of U.S. citizenship
for concealing Nazi-related activities has been deported to
Lithuania.
   The case against Mineikis was developed by the Office of Special
Investigations (OSI) of the Criminal Division of the Justice
Department.
   Mineikis had admitted, in a sworn statement introduced in evidence
at the deportation hearing, his involvement in Nazi-sponsored acts of
persecution while serving as a member of the notorious 12th
Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft Battalion, during World War II.
   He admitted that on "about six" occasions he "was ordered to drive
a truck to where the people were and transport them to the place
where they were shot.  I made several trips each time a shooting
happened.  The people who were shot had to dig the holes in which
they were buried." Mineikis admitted that he remained at the killing
sites to observe some of the murders.  "I saw women and children
shot," he said.
   Mineikis' U.S. citizenship was revoked by the U.S. District Court
in Tampa in January in a denaturalization case brought by OSI on
similar charges.
   The Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft units were armed battalions that
were deployed by the Nazis in killing operations in Lithuania,
Belarus, Ukraine, and Poland, primarily during 1941-42.  Tens of
thousands of Jews and other unarmed civilians, as well as Soviet
prisoners of war, were murdered during these operations.
   In issuing its order of Aug. 6, the immigration court found that
OSI evidence was "clear, convincing and unequivocal," and ruled that
Mineikis had assisted in the persecution of civilians on the basis of
their race, religion or national origin.
   Mineikis is the 31st Nazi persecutor removed from the United
States since OSI began its investigations in 1979.
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