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Self-Styled Militiaman Had Machine Guns, Wanted to Kill Police, Government Says
Traverse City, Mich – A self-styled militiaman charged with weapons violations was "filled with rage" and plotted to kill police in retaliation for the fatal shooting of another man with anti-government views, according to a court document obtained by The Associated Press.
Norman David Somerville, arrested last week after leaving his heavily fortified compound in Wexford County, had stockpiled arms including an anti-aircraft weapon and .30-caliber machine guns, the document said.
A source told investigators Somerville was attempting to mount a machine gun onto a Jeep and that he wanted to cause an auto accident, then ambush and kill police when they responded, said the papers filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
"According to his close associates, Mr. Somerville is filled with rage and intended to ambush people, mowing them down in a hail of machine gun bullets," Assistant U.S. Attorney Lloyd K. Meyer said in a motion and brief urging that Somerville remain jailed without bond until trial.
His attorney, Joe Doele of Grand Rapids, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Somerville, 43, was arrested Oct. 10 after a grand jury handed down a three-count indictment charging him with illegal possession of a machine gun, being a marijuana user in unlawful possession of firearms and manufacturing marijuana.
The two weapons charges are felonies that carry a maximum of 10 years in prison while the marijuana charge, also a felony, carries a maximum of five years in prison.
A detention hearing is scheduled for Monday in Grand Rapids.
In the documents, Meyer said Somerville was growing marijuana and had stocks of automatic assault weapons, explosive powder, bomb-making materials, and tens of thousands of ammunition rounds on his 40-acre property near Mesick, about 30 miles south of Traverse City.
Somerville lived there with his girlfriend, who has not been charged. Meyer said the grand jury investigation was continuing and that "we are going to present more charges and more defendants for their consideration."
Last July, a "confidential source" told state police that "Somerville, his girlfriend and a few others are members of a self-styled radical militia unit who were very upset about the death of Mr. Scott Woodring," Meyer said.
Woodring, 40, a one-time militia member, killed a state trooper July 7 during a standoff at his home in Newaygo County, where officers were trying to serve a warrant charging him with criminal sexual conduct.
He apparently slipped away from his home and was shot dead by police six days later.
The source, described in the court documents as one of Somerville's "trusted associates" with knowledge of his property, told police Somerville wanted to kill a trooper "to avenge Mr. Woodring," Meyer said.
State police and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were prepared to wait "weeks or months" to confront Somerville rather than bring on a standoff at his compound, Meyer said. He was arrested unarmed at a Home Depot store.
Over the next two days, agents conducted a court-ordered search of the property and found it as the source described, the document said.
"Hidden in a tree line, Mr. Somerville had mounted a maneuverable anti-aircraft gun in a position to command logical fields of fire and approaches to the property and any airline flight paths in the open sky," the court papers said.
"This M2 .50-caliber machine gun was over five feet long and weighed more than 150 pounds with tripod. It can fire 550 rounds per minute with a maximum range of over four miles. Mr. Somerville had tens of thousands of belted ammunition rounds for the gun."
Somerville also had several M1919 .30-caliber machine guns, one of which was "locked, loaded and ready to go" behind the side door of a mobile panel van," the document said.
It said a turret on which a machine gun could be mounted was installed in a Jeep Cherokee with the passenger seat removed. Such guns can fire 400 to 550 rounds per minute with an effective range of a half-mile, and Somerville had thousands of rounds of ammunition for them, the document said.
"The keys to what Mr. Somerville himself described as his `war wagons' were in the ignition, ready to go," it said.
Aside from "considerable stores" of food, gunpowder and marijuana, agents found numerous publications and papers including military field and technical manuals, the document said. They dealt with subjects such as booby traps, guerrilla warfare and incendiaries.
Also found were videos with titles such as "America: Wakeup or Waco" and "9/11, the Road to Tyranny."
The document said agents who inspected Somerville's property following his arrest found photographs of President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with the crosshairs of a high-powered rifle scope drawn over their heads.
Somerville was being investigated by Secret Service agents "who had information that Mr. Somerville had stated over a ham radio that he was going to dispatch assassination teams to target President Bush," it said.
The ATF has obtained records showing that Somerville served in the U.S. Army from 1978-84 and was trained as an intelligence analyst, Meyer said. For part of that time, he was assigned to Special Forces groups at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Meade, Md.
(John Flesher [The Associated Press] in Michigan Live, October 16, 2003)
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October 17, 2003

Suspect had recently found God, says relative

ALSO READ: Document: Purported militiaman out for police

By
Record-Eagle staff writer

TRAVERSE CITY - Norman "Dave" Somerville lived a self-sufficient life and rarely left his 40-acre property nestled in thick woods east of Mesick, a family member said.
It was during one of his rare trips away, to Home Depot last Friday, when federal agents arrested Somerville, saying they didn't want to contend with an alleged machine gun mounted to greet visitors to his property.
Somerville faces a detention hearing in Grand Rapids Monday, where prosecutors are expected to argue Somerville should remain in custody pending the outcome of his case.
Somerville, who police describe as a self-proclaimed militia member, faces up to 10 years in prison on a three-count indictment that includes federal weapons and marijuana charges.
"I do not believe Dave is a monster," Somerville's sister-in-law, Robyn Somerville, of Dearborn, wrote in an e-mail to the Record-Eagle.
Robyn Somerville said that although her brother-in-law did not have a job and was worried about trespassers on his property, the 42-year-old recently found God and was baptized.
But authorities say Somerville crossed the line between citizen and criminal when he allegedly converted several Fabrique Nationale L1A1 semiautomatic rifles to machine guns.
At the suspect's arraignment last week, assistant U.S. Attorney Lloyd Meyer said Somerville's actions prompted other militia members to assist authorities.
"Law-abiding, mainstream militia members are cooperating with federal authorities," Meyer said at the hearing. "Mr. Somerville is an armed and dangerous man who should be detained for the safety of the community and who will not respect the authority of this court."
At what officials call his "compound," police say Somerville was ready for any unwanted visitors - especially police.
Officials were wary of arresting Somerville on his property because he had recently made death threats to state police, according to Valerie Goddard, the ATF's special agent in charge of the Detroit office.
"There's only one way in and one way out and he did have a gun mounted outside, ready to shoot," Goddard said. "We decided that we were going to wait, be patient, not expose our people to danger."
While Goddard said she would not speculate about why Somerville wanted machine guns, she said he expressed views consistent with what has been espoused by anti-government militia organizations.
Robyn Somerville said she didn't know whether her brother-in-law was a member of any militia, but she said he knew people who were militia members and had "kind of a unique way of interpreting the Constitution."
As for weapons converted into machine guns, Somerville said she didn't know anything.
"We were always under the impression that the guns that he had were legal, that they could be converted, but that they weren't," she said.

illegal possession of a machine gun, being a marijuana user in unlawful possession of firearms and manufacturing marijuana.

I said so earlier - damn I'm good at calling these things.

This M2 .50-caliber machine gun was over five feet long

I called this one too. See post 28. I'm on a roll.

tens of thousands of belted ammunition rounds for the gun

Now I'm impressed! That much .50 ammo takes up a lot of space at 100 ammo cans per 10,000

The document said agents who inspected Somerville's property following his arrest found photographs of President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with the crosshairs of a high-powered rifle scope drawn over their heads.

Probably planted by the agents.

Somerville was being investigated by Secret Service agents "who had information that Mr. Somerville had stated over a ham radio that he was going to dispatch assassination teams to target President Bush," it said.

Talk about drawing attention to yourself.

President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with the crosshairs of a high-powered rifle scope drawn over their heads.

If all that were shown were cross hairs, how do they know they were on rifle scope, let alone one mounted on a high-powered rifle?

From that Associated Press story ealier:

Also found were videos with titles such as "America: Wakeup or Waco" and "9/11, the Road to Tyranny."

I know for a fact that the second video "9/11, the Road to Tyranny" is an Alex Jones production