Charles Dyer

Judge Declares Second Mistrial For Ex-Marine Oathkeeper Caught After Manhunt

Jillian Rayfield | January 25, 2012, 2:03PM

A judge in Oklahoma declared a second mistrial in the case of Charles Dyer, a former Marine Oathkeeper who is accused of sexually abusing a 7-year old girl, and who went on the run before his trial because he believed his arrest to be a part of a government conspiracy.

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Walter Fitzpatrick

Birther Who Tried To Indict Obama For Treason Arrested For Stealing Court Documents

Jillian Rayfield | December 9, 2011, 11:24AM

Walt Fitzpatrick is seeking an indictment against President Barack Obama for charges of treason.

A birther in Tennessee, previously seen trying to indict President Obama for treason, was arrested and charged with tampering with government documents for allegedly stealing confidential paperwork from his local courthouse.

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Mary Ann Morgan

Another AK Militia Activist And Sovereign Citizen Linked To Schaeffer Cox Arrested

Jillian Rayfield | November 3, 2011, 6:02AM

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

A member of the Alaska militia movement and a sovereign citizen connected with Schaeffer Cox was arrested on a weapons charge while trying to cross into Canada.

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Birthers

Birther Oathkeeper Convicted In Attempted Courthouse Takeover

Jillian Rayfield | October 25, 2011, 3:08PM

Georgia birther and Oathkeeper Darren Huff was convicted Tuesday of attempting to take over a Tennessee courthouse and conduct citizen's arrests on officials.

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Darren Huff

'I Refuse To Be Intimidated': Birther OathKeeper's Trial Heads To Jury

Jillian Rayfield | October 25, 2011, 5:05AM

After a week-long trial, a federal jury in Georgia is deliberating the strange case of birther OathKeeper Darren Huff, who allegedly attempted to take over a Tennessee courthouse and conduct citizens arrests on local judges and officers.

"My government has called me a potential domestic terrorist," Huff said on the stand on Friday as he fought back tears.

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Arizona

Oath Keeper-Backed AZ Mayor Says His Recall Election Was Rigged Thanks To 'Nazi' Police Force

Jillian Rayfield | September 2, 2011, 11:47AM

Ed Foster, second from left, the former mayor of Quartzsite, AZ.

Oath Keeper-backed Ed Foster says his ouster as Mayor of Quartzsite, Arizona was the result of a conspiracy by the town's "corrupt" town council, which along with the "Nazi" police force is running the town under martial law.

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Charles Dyer

Feds Reportedly Capture Former Marine and Oath Keeper After Manhunt

Jillian Rayfield | August 25, 2011, 11:39AM

Federal officials have reportedly captured former U.S. Marine and Oath Keeper Charles Dyer in Texas, following a manhunt after Dyer skipped a court appearance for a rape charge that he believed was concocted as part of a government conspiracy against him.

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Charles Dyer

Manhunt On For Ex-Marine Oathkeeper Accused Of Rape

Jillian Rayfield | August 17, 2011, 8:45AM

Authorities in Oklahoma are on the hunt for a man who didn't show up for a court appearance Monday for his rape trial, and who has ties to the Oathkeeper movement and believes his arrest was part of a government conspiracy.

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Oath Keepers

Man Says He Lost Custody Due To Political Ties, Now Accused Of Domestic Abuse (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | October 12, 2010, 3:47PM

John Irish and Stephanie Janvrin

John Irish, a New Hampshire man who is affiliated with the "patriot" group the Oath Keepers, claimed last week that his newborn baby was taken away from him and his fiance because of his association with the organization, and quickly rallied like-minded libertarians to his cause.

The founder of Oath Keepers sent out an alert, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones interviewed the couple, and soon enough there was a Facebook page to support the parents -- based, in no small part on a heavily redacted affidavit posted by supporters that the Concord Monitor later reported eliminated all reference to Irish's alleged history of domestic violence against his fiancée and her other children.

Before long, the hospital began receiving threats, and an FBI agent and state bomb-sniffing dog team swept hospital property, Kieran Ramsey, supervisory special agent to FBI officers in New Hampshire, told the Monitor.

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Carl Swensson

Extremist Leader Seeking To Indict Obama For Treason Says He Was Questioned By FBI

Zachary Roth | May 7, 2010, 12:03PM

Carl Swensson (inset)

The leader of a movement seeking to have President Obama indicted for treason told TPMmuckraker he was interviewed this week by the FBI.

Carl Swensson said that FBI agents, accompanied by state police, came to his Georgia home Wednesday asking for information about what law enforcement fears is a plan to take over a Tennessee judicial building. "They were concerned that we were gonna storm the courthouse," said Swensson.

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Right-wing extremism

Right-Wing Extremists Take On Local Law Enforcement, Lose

Zachary Roth | May 6, 2010, 11:54AM

Darren Huff

Right-wing extremists who question the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency tried to take on local law enforcement recently -- and they seem to have come out on the losing end.

First, a Tennessee man was arrested after walking into his local county courthouse to try to effect a citizen's arrest of a grand jury foreman who had refused to investigate President Obama's legitimacy to serve -- an encounter partially caught on video. That enraged one Georgia-based member of the far-right OathKeepers group. Responding to a call from an extremist leader, he drove to Tennessee with an AK-47 in a bid to get his comrade released -- only to wind up getting arrested himself.

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Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots

Tea Party Movement Spreads To Military

Zachary Roth | April 12, 2010, 6:01PM

The Tea Party movement has gained a foothold in the armed forces.

A new Tea Party group, Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots, has grown quickly since being launched last month by an active duty Marine Corps sergeant. The group, which vows to "stand up on the very soil we defended to preserve common sense conservatism and defend our Constitution that is threatened by a tyrannical government," currently has over 400 members, who have signed up through its Facebook page, though many are not active duty military. And it has close ties to the broader Tea Party movement.

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Charles Dyer

Former Marine With Ties To Right-Wing Movements Charged With Child Rape, Possessing Grenade Launcher

Zachary Roth | January 22, 2010, 11:16AM

Charles Alan Dyer

An ex-military man with ties to the Tea Party and militia movements has been charged in separate complaints with raping a minor and with possessing an unregistered grenade launcher.

Charles Dyer, a former U.S. Marine who served in Iraq, was arrested January 12 in Oklahoma on the rape charge. A child had told sexual-abuse experts about a January 2nd incident at Dyer's home.

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