In this month’s Sovereign Files, a sovereign was forcibly removed from her car by Florida sheriffs, a drug trafficker committed paper terrorism from his jail cell, and a longtime tax protestor with a predilection for aliens was evaluated as competent, rather than crazy.
A Florida resident accused of killing two police officers last summer is the latest addition to the growing list of domestic antigovernment extremists known as sovereign citizens who have committed serious crimes including a number of other murders.
A former Tennessee resident was convicted last week on two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Michael Wayne Parsons, 57, has also been linked to an extremist plot to kidnap a Nebraska sheriff and a Tennessee judge last year.
A fugitive sovereign citizen wanted by South Carolina authorities for his reported involvement in a fatal shooting in Sumter was apprehended August 15 by the U.S. Marshals Service in Jacksonville, Florida.
In this month’s Sovereign Files, a man who conned people into filing cases in a fake court is convicted on multiple charges; an Illinois man is charged with contempt of court for the second time in four years; a man who calls himself Church reveals plans to run for president upon his arrest; and more.
A man facing terrorism charges for using an armored vehicle to block traffic near Hoover Dam has written jailhouse letters that appear affiliated with an extremist, antigovernment conspiracy movement.
The titular head of a fictitious government has issued an “international arrest warrant” for a self-proclaimed judge who’s an influential guru in the antigovernment extremist sovereign citizen movement.
A New Jersey sovereign citizen has been arrested for filing fraudulent liens against four public officials, the first time an individual has been charged under a state statute enacted in May 2015, which makes the filing of such liens a criminal offense of the second degree.
One of the nation’s most-notorious sovereign citizens, who toured the country teaching antigovernment extremists how to set up bogus “common law” courts, faces 38 years in prison for a long list of crimes committed against public officials.
Sunday, May 6, 2018, was not a typical afternoon for two police officers responding to a citizen’s complaint of a man teaching a 3-year old child how to drive a car within the city limits of Casper, Wyoming.
