acts of harassment and intimidation-and its geographic extent-from major cities like Los Angeles and New York to remote
rural areas in Texas and Montana. The chronology is not comprehensive. Although all major events are included, no
systemized reporting system exists for smaller scale events. As a result, arrests or convictions for charges such as placing
bogus liens, impersonating a public official or committing similar offenses are considerably underrepresented in this report.
Such activities occur with a high level of frequency across the nation. More than thirty-three states are listed in this report;
however, incidents are occurring in every state.
JANUARY
January 2, South Dakota: In Rapid City, South Dakota, "freeman" Bill Huseby is bound over for trial. He is charged with
sending false documents to the Pennington county Sheriff's Office, a former judge, and a private citizen; also, three
misdemeanor charges.
January 6, Washington: Seattle resident Richard Frank Burton, arrested with eight other individuals last July on various
weapons and conspiracy charges, pleads guilty in U.S. District court to one count of conspiracy and three other charges. His
wife, Caitlin Hansen, pleads guilty to one count of destroying and concealing evidence. A third individual, Theodore Carter,
pleads guilty to one conspiracy charge and agrees to testify against his fellow defendants. The three are part of a mixed
group of militia members and "sovereign citizens."
January 6, Oklahoma: Three common-law court advocates plead guilty in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a federal conspiracy charge.
Kenny Moore, Colleen Moore and Wayne Gunwall had filed bogus liens on IRS agents to the amount of $7 million, and had
issued "citizens arrest warrants" against several federal officials. The trial of another defendant, Dan Meador, begins on
January 8.
January 10, Oklahoma: Dan Meador is convicted of obstructing justice and illegally communicating with a member of a
federal grand jury (see above).
January 13, Virginia: Two Mechanicsville, VA, residents are sentenced to eighteen months in prison on tax evasion charges.
Jerry Martin and his wife Sadie Martin, Christian Identity adherents, were "sovereign citizens" who denied the legal
existence of the United States.
January 16, Oregon: Common law court activist Charles Stewart, leader of a Portland, Oregon group, tries "in absentia"
seven IRS agents at his Kangaroo court. Two weeks later, the "court" rules that four of the agents should pay fines of
$100,000 each for seizing a Portland home. However, it was up to the man whose home was seized to collect the money.
January 22, Georgia, North Carolina: District Attorney Albert Taylor, Jr., prosecutor for the Enotah Circuit in Georgia, requests
and receives a "writ of non molestando" to stop a "sovereign citizen," Melvin Julius Robinson, from harassing him.
Robinson's actions included filing a $100 million frivolous lawsuit against him and demanding that Taylor appear before the
"Our One Supreme Court" of Franklin, North Carolina. In response, Taylor dusted off an ancient writ that probably had never
been used in the state to restrain Robinson from using the legal process to "molest, vilify, obstruct, or hinder" the lawful
discharge of official duties.
January 24, Missouri: Five common law court advocates in Lincoln County, Missouri, are sentenced to two years in prison
and a $5,000 fine, and a sixth, Dennis Logan, is sentenced to seven years in prison and a $5,000 fine. The defendants were
charged with tampering with a judicial official-specifically, filing a $10.8 million bogus lien against a judge to force him to
drop a speeding case involving the daughter of one of the defendants. Nine other defendants, also convicted, have yet to be
sentenced.
January 24, Minnesota: Michael Moeller is charged in Winona County, Minnesota, of making terroristic threats. Moeller, a
militia sympathizer, threatened to blow up the headquarters of the state Department of Natural Resources, where he formerly
worked.
January 28, Wisconsin: Sally Minniecheske, the wife of Wisconsin Posse Comitatus leader Donald Minniecheskie, is
sentenced to nine months for disorderly conduct, obstructing an officer and fleeing arrest. The charges stemmed from a
1995 incident during a property seizure in which Minniecheskie threatened a police chief and led him on a car chase through
Tigerton, Wisconsin. The Minniecheskies have been involved in anti-government activities in Tigerton for more than twenty
years.
January 30, Pennsylvania: In Philadelphia, Christian Identity minister Mark Thomas is indicted on conspiracy charges
related to the armed robberies committed by the "Midwestern Bank Bandits," who dubbed themselves the "Aryan
Republican Army." Also arrested is Michael Brescia. Brescia and Thomas bring the total number arrested for these robberies