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May 17, Oregon: Portland, Oregon, area resident James Bell, active in militia and common law court groups, is arrested by
the IRS for obstructing the IRS. Among other things, Bell devised a project called "Operation LocatIRS" to learn the home
addresses of IRS employees in order to intimidate them. He is also suspected of having used a chemical called mercaptan
in a March 16 stink-bombing of an IRS office. Bell is more well known for his Internet essay "Assassination Politics," which
proposed a system of rewards for people who predict the deaths of government officials.
May 19, Montana, North Carolina: Russell Dean Landers and Vincent Wells, two of the Montana Freemen defendants, are
sentenced in Wilmington, NC, on charges of conspiring to commit bank fraud, intimidate IRS agents and transport stolen
property across state lines.
May 20, Pennsylvania: In federal court in Philadelphia, Michael Brescia pleads guilty to charges of conspiracy and armed
robbery and agreed to testify against fellow members of the Aryan Republican Army.
May 21, Oklahoma: Tax protester Wayne Gunwall of Ponca City, Oklahoma, is sentenced to 15 months in prison for
conspiring with two others to harass IRS agents. The other defendants, Kenney Moore and Colleen Moore who, like
Gunwall, pled guilty to one of the counts, have not yet been sentenced.
May 22, Connecticut: A Connecticut judge postpones the attempted kidnapping trial of "patriot" leader James "Bo" Gritz and
his son James R. Gritz until September.
May 23, Oklahoma: Wayne Gunwall and Howard M. Boos are convicted in federal court on a three-count indictment of
conspiring to file multimillion-dollar liens against IRS agents (see above, below).
May 27, Florida: In Tampa, Florida, Emilio Ippolito, his daughter, and six followers, members of the "Constitutional Common
Law Court," go on trial on charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Ippolito is the leader of one of the most prominent
common law courts in the nation.
May 29, West Virginia: A "colonel" in the West Virginia Mountaineer Militia pleads guilty to making a bomb for other militia
members who were plotting to bomb an FBI fingerprint facility. Edward Moore is one of seven defendants in the case; he
faces up to ten years in prison.
May 30, Washington: Gary Kuehnoel, one of the Washington militia/freemen defenders (see above), is sentenced to 27
months in jail for illegal possession of a machine gun, and ordered to pay a $6,000 fine. The sentence was part of an
agreement in which all other charges were dropped.
JUNE
June 2, Oklahoma, Colorado: In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted for his role in the bombing of the federal
building in Oklahoma City in April 1995. He is later given the death penalty.
June 4, Florida: A Jacksonville jury acquits Florida "patriot" and ostrich farmer William Law of 21 counts of defrauding
people by placing bogus liens on people involved with his divorce. The jury believed the argument of Law's lawyer that Law
did not defraud anyone because no one would believe the liens were real.
June 5, Arizona: Trial begins for remaining Arizona Viper Militia defendants, Charles Knight. Viper Christopher Floyd still
awaits trial.
June 5, Oklahoma: A federal judge sentences two Oklahoma common law activist Dan Meador to 16 months in prison, three
years supervised release and a $2,000 fine for obstructing justice and illegally communicating with a grand jury. Meador's
case was linked to the case involving Kenney and Colleen Moore and Wayne Gunwall.
June 12, West Virginia: The second of seven defendants, Jack Phillips, in the Mountaineer Militia case agrees to plead guilty
to a charge of conspiracy to make bombs.
June 12, West Virginia: FBI affidavits reveal that the Mountaineer Militia considered killing Jay Rockefeller and Alan
Greenspan, as well as their families, in a "holy war" against the federal government.
June 16, Washington, Ohio: Cheyne Kehoe, wanted since February for a shootout with police in Ohio, surrenders in
Washington. He will be extradited to Ohio.
June 16, Utah: John Chaney is sentenced in Provo, Utah, to life in prison for aiding in the rape of his daughter. When he
appeared for sentencing, he ordered bailiffs to arrest the judge for treason, but the bailiffs did not respond. Chaney, a
common law court activist and member of an extreme Mormon sect, was convicted in April on three counts of aiding and
abetting in the rape of his (then 13-year old) daughter at the hands of one of his followers. He has launched numerous
lawsuits against Utah judges for conspiring against his religious freedom.
June 17, Utah, Ohio: Chevie Kehoe is arrested in Cedar City, Utah, after Cheyne Kehoe reveals to authorities where he is.
June 23, Washington, Idaho: The second trial for the accused "Spokane Bank Bandits" begins. Robert Berry, Charles
Barbee and Verne Jay Merrell are once again defendants. The fourth defendant will have a separate trial in September.
June 23, Arizona: Arizona Viper Charles Knight is convicted of conspiracy to make or possess unregistered destructive