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    Vegas police stop 'Sovereign Citizen' plot

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    Vegas police stop 'Sovereign Citizen' plot

    By KEN RITTER The Associated Press
    Updated: 2013-08-23T00:33:29Z
    August 22
    By KEN RITTER
    Associated Press

    LAS VEGAS — A sting operation stopped a plot to abduct, torture and kill police officers to bring attention to the antiauthority sovereign citizen movement, Las Vegas police said Thursday.



    Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | AP Photo This image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Devon Campbell Newman.who was arrested in Las Vegas. A four-month undercover operation in Las Vegas led to the arrests of David Alllen Brutsche and Newman. The arrests stopped a plot to abduct, torture and kill police officers in an effort to bring attention the “sovereign citizen” movement, authorities said Thursday Aug. 22, 2013. Newman was being held at the jail pending a court appearance on conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping charges.


    Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department | AP Photo This image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows David Allen Brutsche, 42, who was arrested on domestic terrorism charges in Las Vegas. A four-month undercover operation in Las Vegas led to the arrests of Brutsche and Devon Campbell Newman. The arrests stopped a plot to abduct, torture and kill police officers in an effort to bring attention the "sovereign citizen" movement, authorities said Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013.

    David Allen Brutsche and Devon Campbell Newman were arrested at an apartment a few miles off the Vegas Strip before they could carry out a plan to snatch officers, "put them on trial" and execute them in a vacant house, Las Vegas police Lt. James Seebock said.

    Federal authorities regard sovereign citizen extremists as domestic terrorists. Authorities have linked sovereign citizens groups with violent confrontations in recent years, including deadly shootings in Louisiana and Arkansas.

    Brutsche, 42, and Newman, 67, wanted to draw attention to the group's absolute rejection governmental authority, making the case a domestic terror plot, Seebock said.

    "They were furthering their 'sovereign citizen' ideology by committing criminal acts toward law enforcement," he said.

    Records showed the two were held in Clark County jail pending court appearances on charges including conspiracy to commit murder and attempted kidnapping, Seebock said. It was not immediately clear whether they had lawyers.

    The investigation began when an unidentified undercover officer befriended Brutsche and Newman in April, police said.

    They participated in meetings and training sessions about sovereign citizen philosophy and later shopped for guns and discussed plans to track and videotape police officers to determine which to abduct.

    They found a vacant house and rigged it with bolts drilled into wall supports, creating a makeshift jail where they planned to bind captive officers to cross beams for interrogation.

    Police haven't released video evidence, but the report states that Brutsche and Newman recorded videos about their actions and ideology to post following the abductions.

    Hundreds of hours of conversation were recorded over the course of 30 meetings with the undercover officer, according to the police arrest report.

    "We need to arrest the police and take them to our jail and put them in a cell and put them on trial in a people's court," Brutsche said on July 9, according to the report. "If we run into the position that they resist, then we need to kill them."

    During a tour of gun stores the next day, Brutsche said that what they were planning was going to be big, "and that they would really get a large following once they started because of the publicity," the police report said.

    Police said that when Brutsche was arrested, he denied that police had authority to hold him.

    Police identified Brutsche as a six-time convicted felon and child sex offender from California. Authorities did not detail a further criminal background for Newman.

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    Vegas arrests cast light on anti-government ‘sovereign citizens’ movement

    David Allen Brutsche, 42, and Devon Campbell Newman, 67, were arrested in Las Vegas for plotting to abduct and kill local police officers after an undercover investigation that spanned several months. The couple are members of the Sovereign Citizens' Movement, an extremist group that federal authorities call domestic terrorists.

    By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News
    A Las Vegas couple who plotted to kidnap and kill police officers are part of a growing movement whose adherents believe they aren’t subject to laws and follow a complex theory about the secret enslavement of American citizens, authorities say.

    The couple spent hundreds of hours developing a plot to attract attention to the movement, a cause known as “sovereign citizens,” which holds that police do not have legitimate power, authorities said.

    The two shopped for guns, found a vacant house and rigged it to bind captives to cross beams during interrogation, and they planned to subject officers to their form of a trial for civil rights violations, authorities said.







    Authorities have linked the “sovereign citizens” movement to the killing of police officers in the past. After two deputies in Louisiana were killed in a shootout last year, police said some of the seven people arrested had ties to the movement.

    And three years ago in Arkansas, a father-son team of adherents to the movement killed two police officers before they themselves were killed in a separate gun battle with authorities.

    In Las Vegas, an undercover officer was with the couple and documented their plans, police told reporters Thursday. Las Vegas police Lt. James Seebock characterized it as a domestic terrorism plot.


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    David Allen Brutsche, left, and Devon Campbell Newman, who were arrested on domestic terrorism charges in Las Vegas.

    Arrested were David Allen Brutsche, 42, an ex-convict child sex offender from California, and Devon Campbell Newman, 67, police said. They were charged with attempted murder.

    Brutsche trained by posing as a cop and putting a gun to Newman’s head to take her into custody, according to a police report. They planned to capture police by following their cars and seizing them when the officers got out to make a traffic stop, police said.

    The FBI, in a public alert about the “sovereign citizens” movement in 2010, said that adherents don’t believe they have to answer to government authority. They set up sham courts and clog the real justice system with frivolous lawsuits, the FBI said.

    The bureau said that the movement should not be confused with domestic militias: While “sovereign citizens” followers often use illegal weapons, guns are secondary to their anti-government and anti-tax beliefs.

    The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups, says that the movement has grown since the late 2000s but says it can’t know how many believers there are, in part because the movement has no central leadership.

    “Sovereign citizens” trace alternate versions of American history, the center says.

    Some believe that the American government secretly replaced the system designed by the founding fathers with a version of maritime law and enslaved citizens, and that judges around the country are in on the secret.

    Some also believe that the government, at the birth of each child in the United States, sets up a corporate shell account and assigns the rights of the child to the account-holders, the center says.

    By filing frivolous lawsuits, “sovereign citizens” adherents believe they can free themselves from the corporate masters and access the money in their shell accounts, the center says.

    The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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