Posted on 03/19/2015 10:42:50 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
A man is facing charges after threatening to form a militia against law enforcement in Lincoln County. The man claimed to have weapons and explosive devices he threatened to use against officers.
Timothy Lee Cornwell, 45, was arrested Wednesday and charged with felony probation violation and misdemeanor resist, delay and obstruct a public officer and communicating threats.
Police say the threats started after police, looking for Cornwell on outstanding charges from Burke County, searched his daughters home in Lincoln County. He wasnt there at the time, so they left, said Lincoln County Sheriffs Office Lt. Jason Reid.
Cornwell took to Facebook to express his anger at the officers searching his daughters home. He claimed officers violated her rights by searching without a warrant.
Police say the daughter was cooperative and allowed officers into the home.
The cops are taking what I said (as) a threat but what I am saying goes along with our second (amendment), Cornwell wrote on Facebook. If they are in your house, no warrant, going (through) your drawers, you tell them to leave. They dont. Then you can bear arms against them.
Cornwell made mention of certain weapons he had, including an explosive device, and wanted to form a militia, Reid said.
Im trying to form (militia) against Lincolnton County if everyone else would stop letting them do it, it (would) make a difference, Cornwell wrote.
Cornwell wrote that he had drones live streaming the officers whereabouts and would kill for his rights.
Reid said what was particularly concerning was when Cornwell began naming officers, including an undercover officer by their names. He knew physical descriptions of the officers, their patrol car numbers and where they had been known to patrol.
Lincoln County Sheriffs Office investigators contacted the U.S. Marshals to help apprehend Cornwell.
U.S. Marshals and the Lincoln County SWAT team arrested Cornwell at a home on Lutz Dairy Farm Road. Reid said Cornwell was combative and had to be restrained.
No weapons were found in the home at the time of his arrest.
Lincoln County is a better place with people like Timothy Cornwell in prison and removed from the community. Reid said. We encourage residents to go onto Cornwells Facebook page and read the posts which Timothy Cornwell has made before he has an opportunity to take them down.
Cornwell was jailed on a $28,000 secured bond.
No, he was arrested because he was on probation and provided police with probable cause that he was violating the terms of probation.
The ‘coppers’ are sure spooked these days....
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Yeah there is a little more to it than simply threatening to form a militia.
hey, he was doing what liberals always say is the proper procedure for gun ownership, “a well armed militia”.
This guy does seem to have a screw loose. I’m guessing he is either over or under medicated.
uhhhh.....it was not the threat to form a militia that got him arrested, it was the threat to blow-up some police officers.
U.S. Marshalls?
What would involve the federal government?
Funny that they would do this. Every day, REAL terrorists, mafias, foreign militias, gunrunners and hired killers cross into the United States virtually unimpeded across the Mexican border.
But no flying phalanx of U.S. Marshalls there. Nope. Just some sap with a beanbag gun, about to get waxed by a Russian machine gun.
Good to see the priorities are straight.
Must have been a boating accident.
“...can you tell me where we’re headin’...Lincoln County, or Armageddon?”
“Lincoln County Sheriffs Office investigators contacted the U.S. Marshals to help apprehend Cornwell.”
Assisting local law enforcement in capturing fugitives is one of the legitimate jobs of the U.S. Marshalls. Remember Tommy Lee Jones’ character in “The Fugitive”?
That was a fugitive who crossed State lines.
This guy was holed up...in his house.
I think the real reason here was the mention of explosives, so they can bring up federal regulations about that.
But it’s really ludicrous overreaction to one guy bloviating. You can take anyone’s statements and escalate it into “a federal case” as the joke goes. And this was a joke.
...can you tell me where were headin...Lincoln County, or Armageddon?
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Nicely done with the Dylan’s Senor lyric (but you missed the word ‘road’, lincoln county road or armageddon).
Best version of the song: Tim O’Brien on Red on Blonde (a cd of Dylan covers bluegrassy style).
“That was a fugitive who crossed State lines.”
No, it was not. He was convicted under state law (homicide), and was being transported to a state prison, probably in Joliet, and then he fled to Chicago. He never left the state of Illinois.
“But its really ludicrous overreaction to one guy bloviating.”
He wasn’t just “bloviating”. He made threats against police officers, and was posting their names, addresses, and patrol routines online, including for at least one undercover officer.
No, no, let me guess. He wasn’t trying to form a muslim militia and that’s what got him arrested.
Post your terrorist attack plans on Facebook! What could go wrong?
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