Posted on 08/13/2021 3:27:31 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
The group, which included a dentist and a convicted sex offender, moved in, changed the locks, and put a chain across the driveway with a "private property" sign.
The homeowner, who did not want to be named due to safety concerns, had moved out of the $1.5 million home in Baltimore County and listed it for sale after the death of her husband last year. When a neighbor noticed unusual activity, including people unloading furniture, she notified the homeowner.
The homeowner then realized she was being sued for property ownership. Police reports reviewed by The Sun said one of the people called the takeover a "sovereign acquisition."
Sovereign citizens believe they should choose which laws they follow, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The movement is based on a conspiracy theory that the US government, as established by the founding fathers, was secretly replaced.
They do not believe in the authority of judges, juries, law enforcement, or elected officials, and most do not believe they should have to pay taxes. Sovereign citizens "clog up the courts with indecipherable filings" and sometimes engage in "paper terrorism" that involves tons of court filings with "pseudo-legal nonsense," according to the SPLC.
Police had tried multiple times to get the squatters to leave the home, including using a helicopter and armored vehicles, The Sun reported. They were able to get a search warrant after pulling over Michael Lawrence Warren, one of the squatters, for a traffic stop and discovering his identity and criminal history, which included sex offenses.
Court records show Warren was arrested and charged with multiple counts of burglary and illegal possession of a firearm.
Another person implicated in the incident is Tessa Mona Modiri. Court records show she has also been arrested and charged with multiple counts of burglary. The Baltimore Sun said Modiri had filed a complaint with the county claiming the home belonged to her because she entered it through a broken door, arguing it was abandoned.
A person with the name Tessa M. Modiri is listed as having an active dentist license in the state of Maryland's database.
There are three others facing burglary charges in the incident, but they have not yet been arrested.
The Baltimore County Police Department did not immediately respond to a request from Insider for more information on the charges and arrests.
Sovereign citizens have attempted to take over other people's homes in the past. Last month, a self-proclaimed sovereign citizen was arrested after entering a woman's vacant home in New Jersey and changing the locks.
Another group affiliated with the sovereign-citizen movement got into a heavily armed standoff with police on a Massachusetts freeway earlier this month. Police said the 11 men arrested referred to themselves as a militia that followed a "Moorish Sovereign Ideology," which is an offshoot of the sovereign-citizen movement, experts told The Boston Globe.
Is it 20 years? I thought it was 7
La familia can provide some discreet assistance
The movement is based on a conspiracy theory that the US government, as established by the founding fathers, was secretly replaced.
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If you didn’t know better the article would lead you to believe these were constitutionalist patriot types, which they’re not.
Fist they were, "democrats" then they changed to, "progressives" I guess, now they are sovereign citizens?
"...there are a lot of problems that government has caused. People will have to find alternative solutions"
20 in most states. I have seen it as low as 15, but never lower than that.
I have a question which nobody seems to be asking. I wonder why. If thousands upon thousands of illegals are coming across the border.....where are they living? They need housing. Would this not be causing an extreme housing shortage? Is this shortage one reason house prices are skyrocketing?
That’s right. If the government isn’t going to provide a republican form of government, then US laws don’t apply. The home owner has the right to deem what necessary force is necessary to protect their property.
For the right price, I could rectify heh.
“A person with the name Tessa M. Modiri is listed as having an active dentist license in the state of Maryland’s database.”
Imagine havIng this woman in your mouth.
A major reason our country is in the trouble it is in today.
So many people do not understand the problem. Lack of logic? Shallow minds? Trolls? But whatever, that post is a splendid example.
The problem here is not the value of the house. It matters not whether the house is worth $50,000, $5,000,000 or the 1.5 million mentioned.
I repeat, that is not the problem. The problem is that it belongs to a widow who put it up for sale because of the death of her husband. The home probably represents a large percent of her net worth. She probably is counting on its conversion to cash as a factor in her living standard for the rest of her life.
And someone is stealing it from her any all you have to say is “Not worth it until someone pays that for it”.
That is your contribution to the problem? We have to determine what it is worth before we consider it a problem?
It matters not whether it is worth $50,000, $5,000,000 or the 1.5 million she is asking. The problem is that it is her property and thieves are trying to take it from her.
Any handgun is a simple solution to this problem of removing the sovereign citizens.
I’m waiting for some disgruntled homeowner who’s been stuck with squatters to lose it completely and burn their own house down. If it’s not happened already, it’s gonna!
Did the woman get her house back?
> La familia can provide some discreet assistance
The problem with that is that “La Familia” often ends up with the house.
That was my thought.
Go in with guns blazing.
Our lawyer didn't go into any real detail regarding the mechanics involved...he eventually gave us the OK to buy.
I had a hunch that this particular case would qualify for an adverse possession petition...but I didn't know that 20 years was the requirement.
Exactly!
Yep
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