http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/ Posts for misc.activism.militia Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:43:30 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/ http://www.nnseek.com/img/64.png 64 64 NNSeek http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_bust_brookville_tiger_militia_update_1_207865048t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_bust_brookville_tiger_militia_update_1_207865048t.html Good Morning Newsgroup Readers,

I reference my previous post "!!New Militia Bust-- Brookville Tiger
Militia!!" of 080612.

Today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that the only militiaman
associated with last weeks bust of the Brookville Tiger Militia to be
let out of jail on bail has been taken back into custody for violating
the terms of his bail. Militiaman Kahle was not supposed to be in
possession of either firearms or explosives while awaiting trial, but
was found with more explosives in his possession just days after his
release on bail.

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`Clearfield County Man Accused of Being Part of Militia Back In Jail,`
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [PA], 080621.

A Clearfield County man accused of being part of a militia who was
released on bond is back in jail after court officers found another
explosive device in his home.

Bradley Kahle, 60, of Troutville, faces weapons charges in federal
court. Prosecutors say he gave undercover agents explicit instructions
on how to make what he called "bean can grenades."

Last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith A. Pesto in Johnstown released
Mr. Kahle on home detention with electronic monitoring pending trial.
Part of the bond required that the defendant possess no firearms or
explosives.

But on June 14, a pretrial services officer at Mr. Kahle's home saw a
red cardboard cylinder that was 3 inches long and 1 inch wide, with a
green hobby fuse protruding from one end.

It was turned over to the FBI, and on Thursday, agents took it to the
Allegheny County police explosives range.

They secured it to a wooden post and lit it with an electric match. The
fuse burned for three seconds before it exploded with "a large report,
flash and quantity of white smoke."

The force of the explosion blew the top off the wooden post, according
to paperwork asking that Mr. Kahle's bond be revoked.

A hearing on the bond violation is scheduled for Monday in Johnstown.

Mr. Kahle is one of four men now charged in separate but related
investigations by the U.S. attorney's office related to possible militia
activity.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Amy Reynolds Hay, in Pittsburgh, refused to grant
the other three men bond. They are being held pending trial.

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]]> Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:43:30 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_bust_brookville_tiger_militia_205271512t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_bust_brookville_tiger_militia_205271512t.html Good Evening Newsgroup Readers,

Late yesterday news services began caring articles on a new militia bust
in western Pennsylvania. By this morning and afternoon, the news
articles were more substantive about unfolding events.

At least five militia men from two or three militias in western
Pennsylvania were arrested last weekend on a variety of charges
including illegal weapons and explosives. According to the two articles
below, at least two militias, the Brookville Tiger Militia and the 91st
Warrior Militia, were involved. These two militias have not been known
before. Later this afternoon, a few articles (not reproduced here) were
mentioning a possible third militia group called the PA Citizens Militia.

The articles below from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Wilkes Barre
Times-Leader give a general idea of the situation as of this evening.
The 'exploding golf balls' (sic) at least add a comic element to another
sordid militia bust. I note that former MAM newsgroup participant Mark
Pitcavage was interviewed for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article.

I will, naturally, be posting further on the events as developments require.

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Sadie Gurman, `Militia Activity Probe Puts 2 In Jail,` Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette [PA], 080612.

Two of three men who boasted to undercover federal agents that they
could transform golf balls, pill bottles and bean cans into miniature
grenades were ordered held in jail yesterday, the result of a three-year
investigation by the U.S. attorney's office into possible militia activity.

The men are associated with groups not on the radar of most militia
experts, but U.S. Magistrate Judge Amy Reynolds Hay deemed two of them
-- Marvin E. Hall, 49, of Rimersburg, and Perry Landis, 62, of Du Bois
-- too dangerous to be released from the Allegheny County Jail.

The third, Bradley Kahle, 60, of Troutville, who was arrested Tuesday in
a separate but related investigation, was released after a hearing
yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith A. Pesto in Johnstown, but
is on home detention with electronic monitoring.

Federal agents seized a laundry list of explosives, firearms and
ammunition during a Sunday raid that led to the arrests of Mr. Hall and
Mr. Landis.

Undercover agents first met Mr. Hall at a 2005 "flamethrower party," a
gathering for gun owners, neighbors and aspiring militia members at the
Clarion County home of Morgan Jones, FBI Special Agent Daniel Yocca told
the judge. There, Agent Yocca said, Mr. Hall gave an agent a CD
detailing how to turn an AK-47 into a fully automatic weapon.

In conversations over the next three years, Mr. Hall told agents he
would continue to craft grenade launchers in his hidden-away machine
shed, despite being sentenced in 1999 to 27 months in federal prison for
possessing such unregistered firearms. In fact, Agent Yocca said, Mr.
Hall pledged to manufacture two more grenade launchers for each year he
spent in federal prison.

Mr. Hall also is accused of selling an agent two homemade golf balls he
filled with explosive powder for use as grenades. Agent Yocca said Mr.
Hall stored them in an ottoman along with instructions for improvised
explosives, other items and weapons. Mr. Hall is charged with unlawful
transfer of firearms for selling the golf balls, in addition to a charge
of possession of firearms by a felon.

Mr. Landis had a recipe for what he called "one hell of a mean grenade,"
which involved putting explosive powder and CO2 cartridges -- to provide
propulsion -- into pill bottles, Agent Yocca said. Among other firearms
and weapons, agents seized an ammunition belt Mr. Landis had apparently
fashioned to store several medicine bottle grenades at a time.

"This man was making belts to be used by suicide bombers," prosecutor
Linda Kelly told Judge Hay. Mr. Landis expressed a desire to shoot
police officers and politicians, including Gov. Ed Rendell, and told
agents last year that local district judges should "be the first to get
whacked." His attorney, William Schmalzried, dismissed the speech as
"drunken rambling."

Mr. Landis is charged with selling blasting caps to undercover agents on
Sept. 29, 2007, and March 27.

Mr. Hall told undercover agents that he wasn't involved in a militia,
but if need be, he would associate with a group called the 91st Warrior,
the agent testified.

Mr. Landis is sergeant at arms of a group called the Brookville Tiger
Militia, a group of about 200 that held meetings at its headquarters, a
wood cabin on Mr. Landis' property, Agent Yocca said.

Both Mr. Landis and Mr. Hall are self-proclaimed "survivalists," the
agent said, people who believe they can live off the land, hiding in
mine shafts and underground tunnels with the help of fellow militia
members. One such tunnel extended about 20 feet from Mr. Landis' cabin
to a hillside, Agent Yocca said, and could be used to hide members if
they were ever under siege by police.

The relative obscurity of the two groups matches a pattern as militias
re-emerge after a period of near dormancy, said Mark Pitcavage, director
of investigative research for the Anti-Defamation League and a leading
scholar of the movement.

"What we have seen is that first of all there aren't nearly as many
groups as there were in their heyday," Mr. Pitcavage said. "A lot of
them are actively training but they're not operating in the same ways
they were before. You have fewer sort of large, public groups, like the
equivalent of the Michigan Militia."

Some of the groups loosely affiliate -- a few even have MySpace pages on
the Internet.

"You have other groups who are small cells who don't really link up with
other guys," Mr. Pitcavage said.

The recent arrests, he said, would seem to fit that pattern. He also
said he found no record or Internet footprint for the groups identified
as the 91st and the Brookville Tigers.

Mr. Jones, who was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on weapons
charges in the investigation, faces his detention hearing this afternoon
in Pittsburgh.

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Joe Mandak, `Militia Officer Jailed; Details Emerge About Network,`
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader [PA], 080612.

An alleged officer for a militia claiming 200 members once talked about
shooting Pennsylvania's governor and how a Hillary Clinton presidency
could spark a revolution, an FBI agent testified Wednesday.

Perry Landis, 61, of Clearfield County in western Pennsylvania, was one
of five people arrested in a sweep by a terrorism task force over the
weekend that turned up weapons, ammunition and several homemade bombs.

Details of Landis' group emerged Wednesday in a federal detention
hearing in which Landis was held until he could stand trial on weapons
charges.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Linda Kelly argued that recordings and testimony
established that Landis had the means to fashion a "suicide bomb" belt
out of pill bottles, BBs, black powder and carbon dioxide canisters.

In September, Landis talked about shooting Gov. Ed Rendell because he
was upset about a state plan to put toll booths on Interstate 80.

"He talks the talk and he walks the walk and he's deeply involved in the
militia movement here in western Pennsylvania," Kelly said.

Landis is accused of giving an undercover agent blasting caps twice in
the last year.

Landis told an undercover officer last fall that if Clinton won the
election, "that would be a good thing, that would be the best thing,"
FBI Agent Daniel Yocco testified.

Landis wanted Clinton elected because he believes she'd try to disarm
gun owners and that "would start the revolution and we would all come
out of the woodwork," Yocco said.

Yocco testified the Pittsburgh Joint Terrorism Task Force, which
includes state police, federal agents and others, began investigating
militia activity in western Pennsylvania in 2005. The investigation
targeted two groups with a "propensity for violence", the 91st Warrior
Militia and the Brookville Tiger Militia, which is allegedly
headquartered in a cabin on Landis' property.

Landis' attorney William Schmalzried noted his client's criminal record
consists of a citation for driving without an inspection sticker and a
dog law violation. He argued the recorded threats were bragging.

"We don't even have an attempt at anything," Schmalzried said, "except
talking foolishly, and stupidly, I might add. No harm can be attributed
to Mr. Landis in his life."

The terrorism task force investigation resulted in five people being
charged and their property raided and weapons seized.

Authorities took 25 guns from Landis' property, including several
Chinese assault rifles, some Romanian weapons and a .44 Magnum.
Schmalzried said all the weapons were legal. They also seized
bomb-making materials.

Another defendant, Bradley T. Kahle, 60, of Troutville, was released
after a detention hearing Wednesday in Johnstown. Kahle is confined to
home detention and prohibited from obtaining a passport.

According to an affidavit, Kahle told undercover agents he hoped Clinton
or Sen. Barack Obama would be killed if they were elected, and that he
would shoot judicial and law enforcement officials if he became
terminally ill.

Marvin E. Hall, 49, of Rimersburg, was ordered jailed after a similar
hearing earlier in the day. He's not a militia member but claims to be
an associate. He is charged with illegally possessing a shotgun and an
assault rifle and with giving someone exploding golf ball bombs he
allegedly made in his machine shop.

Hall's live-in girlfriend, Melissa Huet, 34, is accused of helping Hall
illegally possess the weapons. She will appear before a federal
magistrate on June 26,

A fifth man, Morgan A. Jones, 64, of Lucinda, faces a detention hearing
Thursday.

Authorities haven't said if they believe Jones and Kahle are militia
members.

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]]> Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:01:51 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_conviction_ron_cole_again_204606168t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_conviction_ron_cole_again_204606168t.html Good Afternoon Newsgroup Readers,

I reference my numerous postings on Militiaman Ron Cole of the Colorado
1st Light Infantry from ca. 1998 through 2001.

Yesterday's Toledo Blade carried the following article on the most
recent conviction of Militiaman Ron Cole for criminal activity.

Militiaman Cole gained a considerable national reputation in the militia
movement in the late 1990s. During the Freeman standoff he attempted to
break into their compound to help them during the siege. Later he gained
national publicity protesting during the trial of mass murder Tim
McVeigh. Arrested on numerous firearms charges in 1998, he plead guilty
and spent two years in federal prison. On his release he said he had
turned Branch Davidian and claimed to be the successor of David Koresh
in 2001.

Now he has been convicted of another felony, but one hardly related to
political activity. Mr. Cole has been convicted of credit card fraud!
My, my, how the once militia mighty leader has fallen.

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`Ex-Colorado militia member convicted of fraud in Ohio,` Toledo Blade
[OH], 080609.

A former member of the Colorado militia who was extradited to Ohio
earlier this year was convicted last week in U.S. District Court in Ohio
on fraud charges.

Ronald Cole pleaded guilty to 14 charges, including 12 counts of
unlawful production of identification documents and two counts of wire
fraud. He will be sentenced Sept. 15.

According to the indictment filed Nov. 7, Cole created three false
Colorado driver's licenses, five false U.S. Social Security cards, three
false birth certificates from New York, and one State of Ohio temporary
identification card.

Cole also was convicted of submitting false car loan applications to
local dealerships.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth Uram said the applications inflated Cole's
annual income to more than $100,000, about twice what he made.

With the loans given to him by Capital One Auto Finance based on the
false information, Cole purchased two "high-end" cars in December, 2005,
from the Vin Devers automobile dealership in Sylvania and from Yark
Automotive Group in Toledo.

According to Mr. Uram, Cole has an "extensive history" with the militia
movement and was a supporter of the religious sect known as the Branch
Davidians.

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]]> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:02:48 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_sentencings_alabama_free_militia_update_184729816t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_sentencings_alabama_free_militia_update_184729816t.html Good Morning Newsgroup Readers,

I reference my numerous previous posts in threads !!New Militia Bust--
Alabama Free Militia!!, !!New Militia Guilty Pleas-- Alabama Free
Militia!!, and !!New Militia Sentencings-- Alabama Free Militia!!.

I am delighted to reproduce the following from today's Birmingham News
on the sentencing of Alabama Free Militia militiaman William Hudson to
two years in prison for manufacturing machine guns.

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Val Walton, `Accused Alabama Free Militia Leader Sentenced to 22
Months,` Birmingham News [AL], 080403.

A man described as the leader of the Alabama Free Militia, a group whose
members stockpiled weapons, received a 22-month prison sentence Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Karon Bowdre handed down the sentence to William J.
Hudson, 57, who pleaded guilty in October to a charge of making a
machine gun.

"A machine gun has very little use other than destruction," Bowdre said
before sentencing Hudson in Birmingham's federal court.

Hudson, described as the self-appointed colonel of the Free Militia
group, was arrested June 28 after law enforcement officials searched his
home on Division Avenue in Birmingham. Authorities found silencers, two
rifles altered to accept firearm silencers, two machine guns and items
used in grenade construction.

Hudson, who also has a home in South Carolina, was the sixth person to
plead guilty following an investigation through the federal Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that was initiated by the
state fire marshal's office and the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department.
Hudson gave Bonnell Hughes, another militia member, the unassembled
machine gun.

Authorities arrested the militia members after raids in DeKalb, Etowah
and Marshall counties. Numerous weapons were found, including 130
grenades and 70 improvised explosive devices.

The militia members have said they had no plans to attack anyone, but
wanted to be ready in the event of another terrorist attack.

Hudson's attorney, Derek Drennan, told the judge that Hudson was not
associated with the group at the time of the April 26 raids. Hudson said
he accepted responsibility for what he described as his bad judgment.

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]]> Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:28:16 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/even_fbi_left_group_177083352t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/even_fbi_left_group_177083352t.html one that used to harass this NG!
HUH?
Did CIA/FBI infiltrated Scientology?

This would answer a lot of questions!

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]]> Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:46:19 PST http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_sentencings_alabama_free_militia_update_138649048t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_sentencings_alabama_free_militia_update_138649048t.html Good Evening Newsgroup Readers,

I reference my numerous previous posts in threads !!New Militia Bust--
Alabama Free Militia!!, !!New Militia Guilty Pleas-- Alabama Free
Militia!!, and !!New Militia Sentencings-- Alabama Free Militia!!.

Associated Press reported this afternoon that two members of the Alabama
Free Militia were sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to bomb charges.


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`Two Alabama Men Sentenced to Prison In Militia Case,` Associated Press,
071031.

A federal judge sentenced two men to prison Wednesday for their roles in
a group that prosecutors described as an anti-government militia that
stockpiled weapons in northeast Alabama.

Raymond Kirk Dillard, 46, of Collinsville was sentenced to almost six
years in prison, and Bonnell Hughes, 57, of Crossville will serve two
years in prison.

Each man pleaded guilty to conspiring to make explosives.

The two were among six men who admitted being part of a group that
authorities said called themselves the "Free Militia" and stockpiled
scores of hand grenades and about 2,500 rounds of ammunition.

Speaking during earlier court appearances, the men denied that their
group had a name. They said they were worried about terrorism, a failing
economy and the possibility of martial law being imposed in the United
States, but they denied having plans to use the weapons.

Most of the men were arrested during a series of raids in April.

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]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:36:52 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_guilty_pleas_alabama_free_militia_update_130111192t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_guilty_pleas_alabama_free_militia_update_130111192t.html Good Evening Newsgroup Readers,

I reference my numerous previous posts in threads !!New Militia Bust--
Alabama Free Militia!!, !!New Militia Guilty Pleas-- Alabama Free
Militia!!, and !!New Militia Sentencings-- Alabama Free Militia!!.

Associated Press reported this afternoon that the leader of the Alabama
Free Militia, William Hudson, has plead guilty to a weapons charge
rather than stand trial. His guilty plea brings to an end the affair
which began last April. All members of the militia have now plead guilty
to an assortment of firearms and explosive charges.

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Associated Press, `Man Pleads Guilty In north Ala. Militia Conspiracy,`
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette [IN], 071010.

A Birmingham man described as the leader of a ragtag militia that
stockpiled homemade hand grenades and other weapons in northeast Alabama
pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to a weapons charge.

William James Hudson, 56, pleaded guilty to a charge of making a machine
gun, The Birmingham News reported Wednesday on its Web site. His
sentencing is set for Feb. 29.

Hudson was arrested June 28 after authorities searched his Division
Avenue home. They found silencers, two rifles altered to accept
silencers, two machine guns and other items used in grenade construction.

Hudson was the sixth militia member to plead guilty following raids in
April that led to the arrest of five other men described as members of
the Alabama Free Militia and the seizure of a cache of makeshift
weapons. Authorities said agents seized 130 homemade hand grenades, a
grenade launcher, about 70 hand grenades rigged to be fired from a
rifle, a machine gun, a short-barrel shotgun and 2,500 rounds of
ammunition in the raids in DeKalb, Etowah, Marshall and Jefferson counties.

Another member of the group was sentenced to 30 months in prison last
week and two others each were sentenced last month to more than three
years in federal prison.

Two other men, including Raymond K. Dillard, the self-described major of
the group, are to be sentenced later this month.

All of the militia members arrested denied having any particular target
and said they were stockpiling weapons for their own protection.

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]]> Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:14:26 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_sentencing_ed_brown_update_3_127951320t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_sentencing_ed_brown_update_3_127951320t.html Good Afternoon Newsgroup Readers,

I reference my pervious postings in the threads '!!New Militia Bust-- Ed
Brown!!', '!!New Militia Conviction-- Ed Brown!!, and previous postings
in this thread.

I am delighted to post that today's Boston Globe reports that
militiaman, tax evader, and convicted felon Ed Brown and his wife were
taken into custody late yesterday afternoon without incident. This
development brings to an end this sordid affair. I also note in passing,
although I have not posted on it, that federal authorities had arrested
several of the Brown's followers in the past weeks who had aided the
anti-tax couple while on the lam.

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Marc Robins, `Marshals Arrest N.H. Couple, Ending Holdout by Tax
Evaders,` Boston Globe, 071005.

A tense five-month standoff ended peacefully last night when US marshals
took custody of convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown at their
Plainfield, N.H., home, authorities announced.

"We had no indication that the Browns intended to voluntary surrender,"
US Marshal Stephen Monier said in a statement, "so we had to move
forward with an operation that promised the safest possible outcome.
That day was today."

The arrests occurred without incident about 7:45 p.m., he said.
"High-profile situations like this are always difficult, but they don't
have to be tragic.

"I'm glad no one was injured, and that the community remained safe
throughout the operation," Monier said.

The Browns were turned over to the US Bureau of Prisons last night and
will begin serving their 63-month federal prison term, Monier said. In
June, he said the Browns would eventually be charged with obstruction of
justice for resisting arrest.

The Browns had stopped paying taxes in 1996, mostly on income generated
by Elaine Brown's dental practice.

Ed Brown, 65, and Elaine Brown, 67, were convicted of federal tax
charges on January 18th and sentenced, in absentia, during an April 24
court hearing.

Since about the time of their conviction, the Browns had been holed up
on their property and had refused to surrender.

"I'm in my house," Ed Brown told the Associated Press by phone the day
before his conviction. "I won't leave it."

During the stay at their home, the Browns kept weapons, got power from a
wind turbine generator and solar panels, and communicated with the
outside through satellite dishes.

Followers and friends who had heard about the case brought food, water,
and supplies.

The Browns garnered much of their support via the internet.

Ed Brown kept a blog that at one point received a million hits in a
month, and Brown supporters kept a MySpace page for the couple.

Randy Weaver, who infamously resisted arrest at Ruby Ridge in Idaho in
1992, joined Brown at his compound in June to offer his support.

However, visits to the Brown household declined after four men were
arrested Sept. 12 for providing guns or other supplies to the couple.

That, along with other factors, were used in determining the time of the
arrest, Monier said.

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]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:21:31 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_sentencings_alabama_ftee_militia_upate_127725016t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/misc.activism.militia/new_militia_sentencings_alabama_ftee_militia_upate_127725016t.html Good Evening Newsgroup Readers,

I reference my numerous previous posts in threads !!New Militia Bust--
Alabama Free Militia!!, !!New Militia Guilty Pleas-- Alabama Free
Militia!!, and !!New Militia Sentencings-- Alabama Free Militia!!.

I am delighted to post that the Birmingham News reports that Adam Lynn
Cunningham of the Alabama Free Militia [AKA Free Militia] were sentenced
to two and a half years in prison on weapons and explosive charges.
Other members of the militia who plead guilty are scheduled to be
sentenced later. The leader of the Alabama Free Militia, William James
Hudson, has been indicted and is awaiting trial.

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Val Walton, `Collinsville Man Gets 2.5 Years In Militia Conspiracy,`
Birmingham News [AL], 071004.

A Collinsville man this morning received a federal prison sentence of
two years and six months for his role in participating in a conspiracy
with a militia group to stockpile grenades.

U.S. District Judge U.W. Clemon handed down the sentence to Adam Lynn
Cunningham, 41, who was arrested in April 26 with four other men linked
to the Alabama Free Militia. The men were arrested following raids in
Etowah, DeKalb, Marshall and Jefferson counties in which hundreds of
grenades were found.

Cunningham's attorney, Greg Reid, urged leniency for his client. Reid
said Cunningham was not a leader or an organizer.

"He stands here today as a simple man, not a violent person," Reid said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Whisonant sought a prison sentence for
Cunningham, who acknowledged possessing an illegal shotgun and allowed
the militia's stash of grenades to be hidden in the woods behind his home.

"This is a very serious offense," Whisonant said.

The men have said they stockpiled the grenades for fear of another
terrorist attack. Cunningham became the third member to be sentenced.
Two other men, including Raymond K. Dillard, the self-described major of
the group, are to be sentenced later this month.

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