sovereign citizens

BULLETIN: A purported “sovereign citizen” from Nanuet, N.Y., has been charged under state law with criminal possession of a weapon and under federal law with threatening to kill public officials and inciting Facebook visitors to carry out political assassinations. Lawrence Mulqueen, 49, claimed that a county’s sheriff is “the highest law enforcer in all the […]

UPDATED 12:28 P.M. (FEB. 27, U.S.A.) Kenneth Wayne Leaming, a figure in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi-scheme story and a purported “sovereign citizen,” is scheduled to go on trial today in federal court the Western District of Washington with co-defendant David Carroll Stephenson. Leaming is charged with filing false liens against public officials involved in the ASD […]

UPDATED 8:51 A.M. ET (FEB. 20, U.S.A.) Frederick Mann, a former pitchman for the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme and the operator of the bizarre JSSTripler/JustBeenPaid “program” that advertised a return of 2 percent a day and morphed into a “program” known as “ProfitClicking” in the days after the SEC called rival HYIP Zeek Rewards a $600 […]

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On Feb. 13, the PP Blog reported that a federal judge who was quoting from a pleading by AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming had referenced a domain styled peoplestrust1776.org. U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton declared Leaming’s filing, which apparently cited the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), “undecipherable.” The judge exempted prosecutors […]

WWAYTV3 of Wilmington, N.C., aired a report on “sovereign citizens” during its 6 p.m. newscast today. The station revisited some of the strange circumstances surrounding Jennifer Melisa Herring, who was arrested in December 2012 by the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office after an alleged 15-minute car chase. After the PP Blog reported on Herring’s arrest, it […]

“The Court therefore feels some measure of responsibility to inform [Kenneth Wayne Leaming] that all the fancy legal-sounding things he has read on the internet are make-believe. Defendant can call himself a ‘public minister’ and ‘private attorney general,’ he may file ‘mandatory judicial notices’ citing all his favorite websites, he can even address mail to […]

A police officer and a police dog allegedly were assaulted Thursday during a confrontation at the home of a purported “sovereign citizen” in the Columbus suburb of Westerville in central Ohio, 10TV.com is reporting. Westerville is situated in Franklin and Delaware counties The station reported that Gabriel Carnelian Pace, the purported “sovereign,” was wanted on […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This post originally was published Jan. 24 at 7:33 p.m. It was updated Feb. 8 to include this editor’s note reflecting that Andy Bowdoin now is listed as an inmate at the federal prison camp in Pensacola, Fla. (Pensacola FPC.)  The original story published Jan. 24 appears below and includes some edits to […]

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 4:38 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) A federal grand jury in the Western District of Washington has returned a superseding indictment against AdSurfDaily figure and purported “sovereign citizen” Kenneth Wayne Leaming. It is the second superseding indictment against Leaming. The first was filed in 2012. The new indictment was returned yesterday, a day after the […]

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 1:36 P.M. ET U.S.A.) A prosecutor has been shot dead in an ambush outside a courthouse in Kaufman County, Texas, multiple media outlets are reporting. Two gunmen may be on the loose, and police are treating the shooting as an attack on the criminal-justice system, according to early reports. The prosecutor, an assistant […]