Tag: Florida sovereign citizens
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Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Had Armor-Piercing Bullets, Pointed Handgun And Threatened To Kill Victim, Fled Scene, Got Arrested And Released — And Then Was Arrested Again After Separate Victim Menaced With Rifle, Sheriff’s Office Says
Purported Tampa-region “sovereign citizen” Eric Holtgard had been out of jail less than 10 hours before he was arrested a second time for menacing and brandishing weapons, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. In the first incident on Nov. 20 just after 3 p.m., Holtgard, 27, appeared at a car dealership, started screaming at employees…
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Purported Florida ‘Sovereign Citizen’ And Convicted Felon Charged With Having Gun On Property Of Middle School
Purported Florida “sovereign citizen” Bruce Chalmers Hicks was arrested by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office after he was seen carrying a sidearm and stepped on the property of Turkey Creek Middle School near Plant City, authorities said. Plant City is situated in the Greater Tampa region. Hicks, 46, was arrested Thursday and is being held…
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BULLETIN: Purported ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Shot And Killed In Florida After Pointing Pistol At SWAT Team Members, Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office Says
BULLETIN: Jeffrey Allen Wright, a purported “sovereign citizen” wanted on arrest warrants for counterfeiting, was shot and killed March 8 after pointing a pistol at a Sheriff’s SWAT Team in Navarre, Fla., the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office said. Wright, 55, had previous clashes with the Sheriff’s Office, the agency said. From a statement by…
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‘Sovereign’ Cocaine Distributor Sentenced To Life In Prison
Accused cocaine distributor Clinton Williams Jr. put on sideshows in federal court in Pensacola, Fla., arguing that he was a “sovereign citizen,” recasting a serious, cross-border criminal case as a “civil” dispute and insisting that Senior U.S. District Judge Lacey A. Collier had no authority over him. “Throughout the prosecution, Williams continually told the Court…
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RECOMMENDED READING: 66-Year-Old Woman Booked Into Florida Jail Last Month After Traffic Stop May Be ‘Sovereign Citizen’; Police Encounter Yet Another Bizarre Circumstance
UPDATED 9:43 a.m. EDT (JULY 1, U.S.A.) Police in Punta Gorda, Fla., arrested a woman last month during a traffic stop. The events on the day of the arrest strongly suggest the woman is an adherent to “sovereign citizen” beliefs. “Sovereign citizens” may express an irrational belief that laws do not apply to them and…