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Posted on 10/04/2007 9:41:17 PM PDT by STARWISE
A couple convicted of tax evasion were arrested peacefully at their Plainfield home Thursday night after holing up at the fortress-like compound for months, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Ed and Elaine Brown were convicted on federal tax charges in January and refused to turn themselves in to authorities when they were sentenced in April to five years and three months in prison.
It was not immediately clear how they were taken into custody.
"We had no indication that the Browns intended to voluntarily surrender, so we had to move forward with an operation that promised the safest possible outcome. That day was today," U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said in a news release.
Ed Brown, 65, and his wife, 67, have claimed the federal income tax is not legitimate.
Earlier this year, officials cut power and telephone service in an effort to ratchet up pressure on the couple convicted of scheming to avoid federal income taxes by hiding $1.9 million of income between 1996 and 2003.
After abandoning his federal trial and retreating to his home on 103 wooded acres, Ed Brown repeatedly said that any attempts to arrest him would result in a violent confrontation.
The home is on an isolated dirt road and includes a turret that offers a 360-degree view of the property and a driveway that is sometimes barricaded with sport utility vehicles.
Heavily armed police surrounded the home in June while they seized commercial property the couple owned in a neighboring town. SWAT teams, military and explosives vehicles marshaled in the tiny town and sparked rumors of a raid.
The Marshals Service said it was only for surveillance.
(Excerpt) Read more at charlotte.com ...
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8S363QO0&show_article=1
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - U.S. marshals posing as supporters arrested convicted tax-evaders Ed and Elaine Brown at their rural, fortress-like home, the head marshal said Friday.
“They invited us in, and we escorted them out,” U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said, releasing the first details of Thursday night’s arrests.
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Are you an IRS employee? I was just looking at your previous posts and the only subject you have posted on in the last year is taxes, and you have quite an emotional streak when doing so.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, I detest tax cheats and tax protestors even more than I detest our absolutely deplorable current system of income taxation
However one feels about this case, or federal income tax as a whole, you gotta hand it to the feds for their ingenuity there. Reno could’ve learned some lessons here.
There's an interesting question. Getting more interesting every day.
I just posted found info
You can tell what I’m all about by reading my lengthy profile page. You’ve been here how long & have not created one? I suggest you check out all of what I’ve done in nearly a decade as a Freeper & how active I was. I do not appreciate you grilling me, who are you?!
He sounds like a DUer to me somehow. Odd I was just posting info on a case I’ve been following. Good Freeper’s research right? And he is trying to instigate me, who is the upstart hey?
~Hmmm
http://www.wmur.com/index.html
Browns in custody
By MARK HAYWARD AND PAT GROSSMITH
UPDATED: 12:27 pm EDT October 5, 2007
http://www.wmur.com/news/14274183/detail.html?treets=man&tml=man_12pm&ts=T&tmi=man_12pm_1_11000110052007
http://www.wmur.com/news/14274183/detail.html?treets=man&tml=man_break&ts=T&tmi=man_break_1_06250210052007
Ed and Elaine Kidnapped by The Fed’s.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=152568743&blogID=316230983
Ed and Elaine Kidnapped by The Fed’s - They did not Surrende
Body: http://showedthelaw.blogspot.com/2007/10/ed-and-elaine-kidnapped-by-feds.html
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=152568743
Note: Because of a location change, the news conference will not be streamed live. Look for it in its entirety on WMUR.com shortly after it happens.
Videos including news conference:
Are you an IRS auditor BTW?
NWV COLUMNIST TO APPEAR AT CAL. TAX FREEDOM RALLY
By Jim Kouri
the 2007 Tax Freedom Rally in Sacramento, California scheduled for October 19 through 21.
A prolific writer and commentator, DeWeese will discuss the North American Union.
Free Enterprise Society’s will be sponsoring the Abolish the Income Tax rally and there will be a cavalcade researchers, authors and attorneys speaking about the subject of taxes and freedom, and the US Constitution.
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news7.htm
tax ping
Browns Kidnapped by U.S. Marshals!
"The only thing necessary for evil to flourish, is for good men to do nothing. "Edmund Burke"
Reminds me of the flick Lost Boys:
A vampire will not enter your house unless he’s invited ;)
OMG too funny. I just asked him also. He seems to have taken the Browns story as a ‘personal’ attack didn’t he?
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