Posted by Jeanne Devon on January 18, 2013 · 34 Comments
Bill Fulton, one of two undercover FBI informants in the recent Alaska Militia Trial I covered, continued his in-depth interview with me. After recounting the circumstances of his association with US Senate candidate Joe Miller, and the controversial arrest of a local reporter by his security company at a Miller campaign event (while working undercover), we were ready to begin talking about the Cox investigation and the trial. This portion of the interview discusses how Fulton began his company Drop Zone, his association with the FBI, and the beginning of the investigation of Cox, and other members of the militia….
Category Alaska, Headlines, Law & Order, Public Safety, Schaeffer Cox Trial, Veterans · Tags Alaska militia trial, Army CID, Bill Fulton, common law trial, Denny's trial, Drop Zone Anchorage, Far North Tactical, FBI, FBI informant, IACC, Joe Miller, Liberty Bell Network, Lonnie Vernon trial, Schaeffer Cox trial, Second amendment task force, sovereign citizens, US Army
Posted by Jeanne Devon on January 8, 2013 · 29 Comments
“Well, this proves one thing. Schaeffer Cox can still draw a crowd.” Reporter Michael Carey made the observation while sitting next to me on a wooden bench in the lobby outside Courtroom 2 in the federal courthouse in Anchorage this morning. It’s true. At the end of the day, Cox will be sentenced to 25 years, 10 months in prison, and his new lawyer will reveal the results of a recent psychological evaluation that diagnoses him for the first time as a paranoid schizophrenic, with paranoid personality disorder, and delusional personality disorder. But as the day begins, the courtroom is…
Category Alaska, Headlines, Law & Order, Nation, Public Safety, Schaeffer Cox Trial · Tags 241 militia trial, Alaska militia trial, Alaska peacemakers militia, Coleman Barney, Fairbanks militia, Judge Robert Bryan, Lonnie Vernon, Peter Camiel, Schaeffer Cox, Schaeffer Cox sentencing, Second amendment task force
Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 16, 2012 · 12 Comments
Michael Orion Anderson is on the stand when I arrive in court at the 2-4-1 Militia Trial, also known as the US vs. Scheaffer Cox, Coleman Barney and Lonnie Vernon. Anderson is the “insider” that the prosecution promised to produce for the jury in their opening statement. But what we learn from Anderson doesn’t quite live up to the previews. It’s not that his testimony isn’t dramatic or compelling. It’s that and more – a desperate suicide attempt in prison, destroying a hard drive with a hammer, a first person account of an enraged FBI informant threatening to slit the…