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(118,280 posts)Jillian Rayfield January 24, 2012, 2:15 PM
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.
According to the latest indictment, Cox and company did knowingly, willfully, and unlawfully conspire and agree together to kill, with premeditation and malice aforethought, officers and employees of the United States, including law enforcement officers.
The maximum sentence for the charges is life in prison.
The charges stem from an alleged plot that came to light in March of last year, when Cox, Coleman Barney and Lonnie Vernon were first arrested ...
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/alaska_sovereign_citizens_indicted_on_murder_consp.php