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February 21, Washington: Supporters of the Washington militia/freemen defendants on trial in Seattle file a $1.76 billion lien
against the judge, John Coughenour, and five prosecutors.
February 24, Texas: Local authorities in Texas issue an arrest warrant for Rick McLaren, leader of the secessionist
common-law group, "The Republic of Texas," after McLaren failed to appear for a preliminary hearing on a 1995 burglary
charge. However, authorities take no steps to arrest McLaren, who is barricaded in a remote West Texas settlement.
February 28, Washington: The Washington militia/freemen explosives conspiracy case ends in a mistrial. The mistrial is
declared on federal conspiracy charges against seven people, while four defendants are convicted of weapons charges.
Washington State Militia founder John Pitner is convicted of possession and transfer of machine guns. John Lloyd Kirk and
Marlin Lane Mack is convicted of possession of unregistered destructive device. Gary Marvin Kuehnoel is convicted of
possession of a machine gun. Jururs can not reach verdicts on additional weapons charges against Kirk and his wife Judy
Carol Kirk, and against Kuehnoel. Kuehnoel is found i
eighth defendant previously had pled guilty.
MARCH
March 1, Wisconsin: $2 million cash bond is ordered for Wisconsin man charged with hiring a hit man to murder his
estranged wife and her father. James Schuman, the man charged, is a member of Wisconsin Militia.
March 2, Washington, Idaho: Trial begins for Charles Barbee, Robert Berry and Jay Merrell, Christian Identity white
supremacists part of a bank-robbing gang in Spokane, WA, area associated with the Phineas Priesthood.
March 2, Ohio: Ohio Aryan Nations member Morris Gulett is arrested for ramming a Dayton police cruiser then fleeing.
March 3, New Hampshire: New Hampshire militia leader pleads guilty to federal charges of stealing $100,000 in equipment
from Fort Devens Army base. Fitzhugh MacCrae, member of Hillsborough County Dragoons, admits to three counts. He is
the second Dragoon to plead guilty.
March 3, Texas: "Republic of Texas" member John Albert Crain files $27 million lawsuit over three traffic tickets in San
Angelo. The atmosphere between "Republic of Texas" members and the real government of Texas grows increasingly
tense.
March 4, Texas: Pecos County Sheriff Steve Bailey warns he may have to use extreme measures to arrest Richard
McLaren, "ambassador" for the Republic of Texas, for warrants on burglary and failure to appear in court. McLaren is holed
up in a housing resort west of Fort Davis, Texas.
March 6, Wisconsin: Federal prosecutors go to court to stop two Milwaukee area men, Robert Raymond and Robert
Bernhoft, from selling their "De-Taxing America Program."
March 9, Oregon: Salem, Oregon, Militia leader Michael Cross is sentenced to five years on probation for pleading guilty to
criminal mistreatment after receiving $25,000 gift from an elderly foster-care resident.
Ca. March 9, Texas: Members of extremist group Republic of Texas begin "impeachment" proceedings against Richard
McLaren as the group, under pressure from law enforcement authorities, fragments.
March 10, California: Elizabeth Broderick of Palmdale, California, is sentenced to nearly seventeen years in prison on 28
charges related to selling more than 8,000 fraudulent "Comptroller Warrants" with a face value of more than $800 million.
Several accomplices also receive prison sentences in subsequent weeks.
March 12, Co
criminal trespass and interfering with police. They are members of a common law court and they refuse to vacate the
properties where they live despite having hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of unpaid loans.
March 13, Washington, Idaho: FBI agents arrest a fourth suspect, Brian Ratigan, in the Spokane bombings, about the same
time as the prosecution rests in the trial of three other suspects.
March 13, Oklahoma: Former Tulsa opera singer Carol Elizabeth Howe is indicted in Federal court in Tulsa, accused of
willfully making a bomb threat, possession of a non-registered destructive device and conspiracy. James Dodson Viefhous,
already in custody, is also indicted. The two are founders and members of the National Socialist Alliance of Oklahoma, as
well as part of the Aryan Intelligence Network. They left a message on this phone network that bombs would be detonated in
15 US cities unless action was taken by December 15 by "white warriors" against the government of the U.S.
March 13, Ohio, Pe
conspiracy charges related to bank robberies they carried out. Both have been previously convicted on armed robbery
charges. Mark Thomas, an Aryan Nations leader in Pe
another defendant are cooperating with government investigators; a fifth defendant, Michael Brescia, is jailed and awaiting
trial. Another suspect committed suicide in jail.
March 17, Montana, Indiana: Joe Holland, leader of the North American Volunteer Militia, is sentenced in Missoula, Montana, to 10 years in prison for jury tampering and advocating violence. He is also indicted on charges in Indiana.
March 17, Texas: Texas officials issue two more (civil) arrest warrants against Republic of Texas members Robert Kesterson ("secretary of state") and Carolyn Carney ("secretary of inter-agency coordination").
March 17, California: California "Patriot" Timothy Paul Kootenay, is sentenced to 300 days in county jail and four years' probation after pleading guilty to purchasing assault rifles with bogus money orders issued by Family Farm Preservation, a "patriot" group linked with the Posse Comitatus.
March 19, Arizona: Six members of the Arizona Viper Militia are sentenced to jail terms for conspiracy to make bombs. The
longest sentence is nine years. All had pled guilty. The number eventually increases to 10 who plead guilty. Two do not and
will go to trial.
March 21, Ohio: The FBI and ATF jointly post a $60,000 reward for information leading to the arrests of Aryan Nations
members Cheyne and Chevie Kehoe for shooting at police officers in Ohio in February. The Kehoe brothers are thought to
have fled back to their Spokane area origins.
March 21, Alabama: Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals unanimously affirms the capital murder conviction of a "patriot,"
George Sibley, Jr., found guilty in the 1993 shooting death of an Opelika police officer. His common-law wife, Linda Lyon
Block, is also on death row for the same offense.
March 25, North Carolina: Du
prison after pleading guilty to failing to file a federal income tax return. McLamb had ties to the Montana Freemen; he is also
charged in a federal indictment of various crimes committed in co
Russell Landers. McLamb and Wells belonged to an extremist group i
March 25, Kansas: Two Kansas residents are convicted in Tulsa for passing Montana Freemen checks. Bill and Karen
Hanzlicek were found guilty of conspiracy, bank fraud, mail fraud and passing a counterfeit check.
March 26, Florida: In Stuart, Florida, John Foster, is charged with obtaining $662,000 in bogus checks from the Montana