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the Washington militia/freemen bombmaking conspiracy, is sentenced to 46 months in prison.

May 3, Colorado: Arsonists destroy IRS offices in a building in Colorado Springs, spray-painting "AAR" or "ARA" inside the

building. They cause more than $1 million in damage.

May 3, Texas: Most of the remaining Republic of Texas members surrender to authorities. Richard McLaren, his wife Evelyn,

and three followers (Richard Otto, Greg and Karen Paulson), walk out of their hideout after signing a "cease-fire" agreement

with Texas Rangers. Two members, Richard Keys and Mike Matson, decided not to surrender and fled into the Davis

Mountains. Authorities began a search with bloodhounds, helicopters, and troopers on horseback. Police find more than 60

pipe bombs at the "embassy."

May 5, Texas: One or both of the two Republic of Texas fugitives fire shots at bloodhounds, wounding two of them, in the

remote Davis Mountains. Later that day, police shoot and kill one of the two fugitives. The other apparently escapes.

Meanwhile, Richard and Evelyn McLaren are indicted on charges that could bring up to hundreds of years in prison.

May 8, Texas: Five more Republic of Texas members are arrested as part of McLaren's scheme to issue $1.8 billion in

bogus warrants: Jasper Edward Baccus, Joe Louis Reece, Steven Craig Crear, Erwin Leo Brown, and Mark Anthony

Hernandez. Also arrested is Republic of Texas leader Robert Kesterson, on three counts of contempt of court out of Travis

County, where he filed bogus liens and other documents in violation of a judge's order. Donald Joe Varnell was another

member arrested on contempt of court charges. State authorities also filed suit against Carolyn Carney for nonpayment of

taxes. Other leaders, including Archie Lowe and Darrell Franks, are also charged with contempt.

May 9, California: LA police arrest five militia members, seizing a grenade launcher, hand grenades, hand grenade

components, automatic assault rifles, body armor, night vision goggles, and over 100 different types of weapons. Arrested

are Glenn Yee, a reserve police officer, Alvin Ung, Mark Grand, Timothy Swanson and Raymond Durand. None have any

previous criminal history. Police say more arrests are expected; the suspects were allegedly planning to attack several

Southern California targets. Durand is later said not to be associated with the militia suspects, but rather a separate case.

May 10, California: A seventh man, Daniel Sparhawk, is arrested in connection with the Yuba explosives case, on charges of

possessing two tubes of petrogel. His girlfriend, Tina Lorene Terrell, is also arrested, bringing the total number to ten.

May 12, New Hampshire: New Hampshire militia leader Brian Chabot pleads guilty to his role in theft of $100,000 worth of

military equipment (see above). Chabot is the third of three to plead guilty.

May 16, Wisconsin: Three members of anti-tax group in Wisconsin are given a 20-count indictment charging them with tax

fraud. These members of Sovereign Citizens for Liberty, Frank A. Wysocki, Alan Cooper and Robert Iacoe, sold "untax"

packages to gullible people.

May 17, Oregon: Portland, Oregon, area resident James Bell, active in militia and common law court groups, is arrested by

the IRS for obstructing the IRS. Among other things, Bell devised a project called "Operation LocatIRS" to learn the home

addresses of IRS employees in order to intimidate them. He is also suspected of having used a chemical called mercaptan

in a March 16 stink-bombing of an IRS office. Bell is more well known for his Internet essay "Assassination Politics," which

proposed a system of rewards for people who predict the deaths of government officials.

May 19, Montana, North Carolina: Russell Dean Landers and Vincent Wells, two of the Montana Freemen defendants, are

sentenced in Wilmington, NC, on charges of conspiring to commit bank fraud, intimidate IRS agents and transport stolen

property across state lines.

May 20, Pennsylvania: In federal court in Philadelphia, Michael Brescia pleads guilty to charges of conspiracy and armed

robbery and agreed to testify against fellow members of the Aryan Republican Army.

May 21, Oklahoma: Tax protester Wayne Gunwall of Ponca City, Oklahoma, is sentenced to 15 months in prison for

conspiring with two others to harass IRS agents. The other defendants, Kenney Moore and Colleen Moore who, like

Gunwall, pled guilty to one of the counts, have not yet been sentenced.

May 22, Connecticut: A Connecticut judge postpones the attempted kidnapping trial of "patriot" leader James "Bo" Gritz and

his son James R. Gritz until September.

May 23, Oklahoma: Wayne Gunwall and Howard M. Boos are convicted in federal court on a three-count indictment of

conspiring to file multimillion-dollar liens against IRS agents (see above, below).

May 27, Florida: In Tampa, Florida, Emilio Ippolito, his daughter, and six followers, members of the "Constitutional Common

Law Court," go on trial on charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Ippolito is the leader of one of the most prominent

common law courts in the nation.

May 29, West Virginia: A "colonel" in the West Virginia Mountaineer Militia pleads guilty to making a bomb for other militia

members who were plotting to bomb an FBI fingerprint facility. Edward Moore is one of seven defendants in the case; he

faces up to ten years in prison.

May 30, Washington: Gary Kuehnoel, one of the Washington militia/freemen defenders (see above), is sentenced to 27

months in jail for illegal possession of a machine gun, and ordered to pay a $6,000 fine. The sentence was part of an