GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: US judge tosses motion by Trinidad hostage-takers

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Federal News Radio

24March2011 8:00amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - A U.S. judge has rejected an attempt by seven Trinidadian men to overturn their convictions in a hostage-taking that resulted in the death of a 62-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen.

The men argued their convictions should be invalidated because the victim did not meet naturalization qualifications. (read full report)

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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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