Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caught our attention through May 10.
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 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.
On Friday, February 9, 2018, two Henry County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the home of Tierre Guthrie in Locust Grove, Georgia, to serve an arrest warrant related to his failure to appear in court.
A self-described Moorish “Grand Sheik,” who led a sovereign-citizen-style fraud scheme seeking more than $100 million in tax refunds, has been sentenced to 68 months in federal prison.