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(118,224 posts)February 13, 2012
Phoenix resident Michael Lee Crane, 31, charged with the murders of an elderly couple from Paradise Valley, Arizona, and a suspect in a third murder, recently used arguments from the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement when appearing in court following his arrest.
On January 26, 2012, after being called to a fire at a residence, Phoenix police discovered the body of a cigar salesman, Bruce Gaudet, who had been shot to death. Several days later, police in Paradise Valley, after finding a burning car on January 30 that belonged to Lawrence and Glenna Shapiro, went to their home to discover it too was on fire. They also found the burned and bound bodies of the elderly Shapiros, who had been shot to death. Preliminary ballistic reports suggest a match between the bullet casings in each incident ...
http://blog.adl.org/extremism/triple-murder-suspect-uses-sovereign-citizen-arguments-in-court-hearing