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Deadbeat parent hunter faces same charge

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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- A former Minnesota child support supervisor faces federal charges of avoiding court-ordered payments for his own two children, a report said Tuesday.

Francis Giberson, a lawyer who was deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services in the mid-1980s, is accused of owing more than $108,000 in child support, a criminal complaint charges.

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His ex-wife, Judith Brooks of Bloomington, said she remembers when her husband worked in state government, they talked about deadbeat parents.

"He hated it," she said. "He thought it was pretty despicable."

Authorities arrested him last week in Las Vegas, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

His arrest was part of a coast-to-coast sweep of parents delinquent in paying child support and Giberson was cited as a top example in the effort to crack down on deadbeats.

He is being held without bond and a judge ordered he be brought to Minnesota to appear in court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank Magill said.

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