GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: FBI begins to take note of 'Sovereign Citizen' activity

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: AJC

18March2011 10:43amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Federal authorities are seeing an increase in the number of  foreclosed and unoccupied homes in metro Atlanta being seized by members of an anti-government group.

"I'm not sure I can connect it with the economy, but we've seen a surge of these in the last year, in particular," Stephen Emmett, special agent in the Atlanta field office of the FBI, said Saturday. Emmet said federal and local authorities increasingly are running into confrontations with members of a sect known as "sovereign citizens."

The group believes banks can't own land or property and that any home owned by a bank -- including the thousands of foreclosed properties throughout Georgia -- are theirs for the taking. (read full report)

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