Schaeffer Cox

Judge Won't Toss Weapons Evidence In Schaeffer Cox Case

Jillian Rayfield | February 10, 2012, 5:14PM

Second Amendment Task Force organizer Schaeffer Cox prepares to address fellow gun rights supporters on Thursday, March 5, 2009, at Friends Community Church.

A federal judge will not grant a motion by Schaeffer Cox and other alleged members of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia to throw out evidence obtained from multiple searches, which turned up weapons that are key to the prosecution's case.

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Schaeffer Cox

Alaska Sovereign Citizens Indicted On Murder Conspiracy Charges

Jillian Rayfield | January 24, 2012, 2:15PM

Second Amendment Task Force organizer Francis "Schaeffer" Cox

Schaeffer Cox and two of his followers in the Alaska Peacemaker Militia appeared in court on Monday expecting to file more motions to dismiss the charges against them. Instead they were greeted with additional indictments by a federal grand jury charging them with conspiring to kill government officials, including law enforcement officers.

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Feds Call In Alleged Schaeffer Cox Associate As Material Witness

Jillian Rayfield | December 7, 2011, 12:40PM

Second Amendment Task Force organizer Francis "Schaeffer" Cox

The FBI has served a material witness warrant to Michael O. Anderson, a former associate of Schaeffer Cox who was released from prison when the state dropped its charges against members of Cox's Alaska militia crew.

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Bill Fulton

The Strange Case Of The FBI's Second Schaeffer Cox Informant

Jillian Rayfield | November 29, 2011, 12:29PM

Second Amendment Task Force organizer Schaeffer Cox prepares to address fellow gun rights supporters on Thursday, March 5, 2009, at Friends Community Church.

Remember when Republican senate candidate Joe Miller hired a security team for that ill-fated campaign event at a public school last fall? Well, as it turns out, the head of the security team was moonlighting as a confidential informant infiltrating the Alaska militia movement for the FBI, in an effort that eventually helped lead to the arrest of Schaeffer Cox and his followers on weapons charges and an alleged plot to kill state officials.

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Schaeffer Cox & Co. Also Charged With Possessing Grenade Launcher

Jillian Rayfield | November 22, 2011, 6:10AM

Second Amendment Task Force organizer Francis "Schaeffer" Cox

Schaeffer Cox and two members of his Alaska militia were indicted on two additional federal weapons charges for possessing grenades and a grenade launcher.

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AK Militia Suspects Want Trial Moved From Anchorage Because It's Too Much Like Seattle

Jillian Rayfield | September 20, 2011, 8:30AM

Schaeffer Cox

Lawyers for Schaeffer Cox and another member of the Fairbanks-based Alaska Peacemakers Militia have asked the court to move their trial from Anchorage because it's "a suburb of Seattle" and is "an environment alien to the accused."

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Sovereign Citizens

AK Man Gets Reduced Sentence After Informing On Schaeffer Cox

Jillian Rayfield | July 28, 2011, 6:00AM

Schaeffer Cox

The identity of one of the two confidential informants in the Schaeffer Cox militia case was revealed this week after a judge reduced his sentence on several felony charges, as a reward for his help in bringing about the arrest of Cox and members of his Alaska Peacemakers Militia.

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Alaska

Attorneys For Schaeffer Cox Want Murder Conspiracy Charges Thrown Out

Jillian Rayfield | July 7, 2011, 2:05PM

Schaeffer Cox

Attorneys for Schaeffer Cox have asked a court to throw out murder conspiracy charges against their client, who is accused of plotting to kill a federal judge, because of the way the grand jury was conducted.

Cox, a self-proclaimed sovereign citizen and leader of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia, was arrested in March, along with Coleman Barney, Lonnie and Karen Vernon, and Michael O. Anderson, for allegedly stockpiling weapons as part of a plot to kill two Alaska State Troopers, an IRS employee, and the federal judge.

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Alaska

State Trial Of AK 'Sovereign Citizens' May Be Delayed Until Next Year

Jillian Rayfield | June 28, 2011, 10:21AM

Schaeffer Cox

Attorneys for the group of Alaska sovereign citizens who allegedly plotted to murder a federal judge are pushing for the trial to be delayed until after the federal charges against them have been resolved.

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