sovereign citizens

Donna Jo Kirkland, a purported Alabama sovereign citizen” who filed bogus liens against public officials and then didn’t remove them as required to honor and maintain her probation agreement, now has been found guilty of resisting arrest. WAFF-TV: News, Weather and Sports for Huntsville, AL

Macy’s, the American department-store chain famous in real life and in fiction, was the victim of a $218,000 theft at the hands of purported “sovereign citizen” Richard Reyes Duenas and four others, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. Duenas, 30, recently was arrested in Las Vegas and taken back to Los Angeles to face […]

The Dispatch of Lexington, N.C., published a story June 7 to update readers on Zeek Rewards-related litigation — specifically the date of a hearing on a motion by certain Zeek members (alleged net winners) to dissolve the receivership. (See link to story/Comments below.) As of this morning, about 27 comments appear below the story. The […]

Raymond Leo Jarlik Bell, a 70-year-old purported “sovereign citizen” linked to AdSurfDaily figure Kenneth Wayne Leaming, has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for a tax scam. In July 2011, federal agents found records of bogus liens filed by Leaming against public officials while executing a search warrant at Jarlik Bell’s residence in […]

It has happened again — this time in Raleigh, N.C., officials said. Sullivan Colin, 36, has been arrested on a charge of filing a false lien for $3 million against a court clerk who oversaw a foreclosure case, the Raleigh News Observer is reporting. From the News Observer (italics added): Court officials say the lien […]

Chadwick Simmons was flush with weed and told police he was a “Moorish Aboriginal Sovereign Citizen” who’d trademarked his name, WSBTV.com is reporting. Some purported Moorish Americans and “sovereign citizens” have constructed paperwork confections that purport police, court officials or media outlets owe them tremendous sums of money when using their names or citing court […]

The Montgomery County Police Department (Maryland) has released a photo of an alleged suspect who may be part of a bizarre crime linked to purported members of the purported “Moorish Nation.” Individuals who purport to be “Moorish Americans” or “Moorish nationals” have been linked to plots to steal real estate in multiple U.S. states. News […]

A “program” the PP Blog reported may have ties to the so-called “sovereign citizens” movement appears to have wiped out investors and perhaps zeroed out the purported earnings of many of them, according to posts at the MoneyMakerGroup Ponzi-scheme forum. In fact, according to one post, the “ProfitClicking” program perhaps now can be best described […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: (UPDATED 10:55 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison. His former business associate and fellow purported “sovereign” David Carroll Stephenson has been sentenced to 10 years. Stephenson already was serving prison time for a tax scam. […]

The FBI has arrested Matthew Ryan Buquet, who appeared in federal court yesterday to face a charge he mailed a letter containing ricin toxin to a federal judge in Washington state. Buquet is 37. The Associated Press, via Fox News, identified the intended recipient as U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle of the Eastern District […]

BULLETIN: Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Washington have asked Judge Ronald B. Leighton to sentence AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming to 10 years in federal prison, the maximum term under the law. Leaming, 57, of Spanaway, Wash., was found guilty March 1 on charges of filing false liens against […]