A paranoid 'Sovereign Citizens' couple in Las Vegas were planning on kidnapping, torturing, and executing police officers.
'Sovereign citizens' held in plot to kill Vegas cops
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A couple spent hundreds of hours over four months plotting to abduct, torture and kill Las Vegas police officers as a way to attract attention to their anti-authority "sovereign citizens" movement, police said.
David Allen Brutsche and Devon Campbell Newman attended training sessions about sovereign citizen philosophy, shopped for guns, found a vacant house and rigged it to bind captives to cross beams during interrogation, and recorded videos to explain their actions and why officers had to die.
Their plan for political murders was foiled foiled by police infiltrators who videotaped a number of meetings with the couple.
Newman, 67, of Las Vegas was a bit nervous, according to a police report. She asked at one meeting to unplug the television because she thought authorities could use it to listen to their conversations.
Brutsche 42, an ex-con child sex offender from California, practiced stalking Newman, posing as a police officer and putting a gun to her head to take her into custody, the report said.
What a couple of sweethearts!
David Allen Brutsche
"We need to arrest the police and take them to our jail and put them in a cell and put them on trial in a people's court," Brutsche said July 9, according to the arrest report. "If we run into the position that they resist, then we need to kill them."
Ugh!
Police: 'Sovereign citizens' planned to execute Las Vegas cops
Their plan did not single out a particular officer or law enforcment agency, but was to be a "target of opportunity," Seebock said.
"The suspects further believed once the first kidnapping and execution was accomplished, they would be compelled to keep repeating their actions -- kidnapping and killing multiple officers," he said.
Why do I get the feeling this won't be the last one of these groups to be uncovered, or worse to emerge on their own violently. The Fright Wing hate machine is overheating.