Posted on 07/03/2021 10:26:07 AM PDT by bitt
State police have arrested 11 “heavily armed” men from a group “that does not recognize our laws” who caused highway shutdowns and shelter-in place orders in Wakefield after they fled into the woods after an encounter with cops, authorities said.
State Police Col. Christopher Mason told reporters earlier in the morning that one of his troopers saw some vehicles in the breakdown lane at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, and pulled over to see what was going on. The trooper saw that the group of “eight to 10” people, dressed to the nines in “military-style” tactical gear and armed to the teeth with long guns and handguns, was refueling their two vehicles, he said.
The trooper asked the men for their drivers licenses and licenses to carry, which the men either didn’t have or didn’t provide, he said.
Police arrested two of the men without incident early in the morning, Mason said around 8:30 a.m. The following seven arrests came by 10:30 a.m., and then cops sweeping the area found and arrested two more in the group’s vehicles. Police said all suspects had been taken into custody, ending the bizarre incident.
He said in a press conference shortly before noon that the police used a combination of negotiation and “tactical maneuvers” to round up the militiamen, who were arrested without further incident.
He said cops — who described this as a “dangerous incident” — contained the men to the woods off of I-95. Negotiators were on site and were having what Mason characterized as “productive” discussions with the group. He didn’t elaborate on what they wanted.
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Only 5 will be indicted because the other six are all FBI assets.
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