All posts tagged "Sovereign Citizen"

An active shooter situation in Pittsburgh that morphed into an hours-long standoff with police that saw hundreds of shots fired has ended with a "sovereign citizen" activist dead, reported The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

"He was identified as 63-year-old William Hardison Sr., with WPXI-TV reporting that he identified as a sovereign citizen — a loosely-affiliated group of anti-government activists who believe they are exempt from the law," reported Erik Uebelecker. "His cause of death was not immediately released."

According to the report, however, the whole incident began with police trying to serve an eviction notice....

A California couple has spent the last month jailed in Tennessee after they were stopped for a car registration violation.

Authorities shot and killed a sovereign citizen Friday morning outside a Georgia courthouse after he brought weapons and explosives in an attempt to take over the building.

An Ohio judge rejected arguments made Monday in court by a self-described “sovereign citizen” who admitted to illegally entering houses and laying claim to them.

A grand jury indicted an Ohio “sovereign citizen” who tried to steal 11 homes by moving in and filing a “quiet title” to claim ownership.

The FBI has said it is monitoring a growing extremist threat from "sovereign citizen" movements, and is targeting their activities to prevent a repeat of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.