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charge. However, authorities take no steps to arrest McLaren, who is barricaded in a remote West Texas settlement.

February 28, Washington: The Washington militia/freemen explosives conspiracy case ends in a mistrial. The mistrial is

declared on federal conspiracy charges against seven people, while four defendants are convicted of weapons charges.

Washington State Militia founder John Pitner is convicted of possession and transfer of machine guns. John Lloyd Kirk and

Marlin Lane Mack is convicted of possession of unregistered destructive device. Gary Marvin Kuehnoel is convicted of

possession of a machine gun. Jururs can not reach verdicts on additional weapons charges against Kirk and his wife Judy

Carol Kirk, and against Kuehnoel. Kuehnoel is found innocent of three counts of possession of unregistered firearm. An

eighth defendant previously had pled guilty.

MARCH

March 1, Wisconsin: $2 million cash bond is ordered for Wisconsin man charged with hiring a hit man to murder his

estranged wife and her father. James Schuman, the man charged, is a member of Wisconsin Militia.

March 2, Washington, Idaho: Trial begins for Charles Barbee, Robert Berry and Jay Merrell, Christian Identity white

supremacists part of a bank-robbing gang in Spokane, WA, area associated with the Phineas Priesthood.

March 2, Ohio: Ohio Aryan Nations member Morris Gulett is arrested for ramming a Dayton police cruiser then fleeing.

March 3, New Hampshire: New Hampshire militia leader pleads guilty to federal charges of stealing $100,000 in equipment

from Fort Devens Army base. Fitzhugh MacCrae, member of Hillsborough County Dragoons, admits to three counts. He is

the second Dragoon to plead guilty.

March 3, Texas: "Republic of Texas" member John Albert Crain files $27 million lawsuit over three traffic tickets in San

Angelo. The atmosphere between "Republic of Texas" members and the real government of Texas grows increasingly

tense.

March 4, Texas: Pecos County Sheriff Steve Bailey warns he may have to use extreme measures to arrest Richard

McLaren, "ambassador" for the Republic of Texas, for warrants on burglary and failure to appear in court. McLaren is holed

up in a housing resort west of Fort Davis, Texas.

March 6, Wisconsin: Federal prosecutors go to court to stop two Milwaukee area men, Robert Raymond and Robert

Bernhoft, from selling their "De-Taxing America Program."

March 9, Oregon: Salem, Oregon, Militia leader Michael Cross is sentenced to five years on probation for pleading guilty to

criminal mistreatment after receiving $25,000 gift from an elderly foster-care resident.

Ca. March 9, Texas: Members of extremist group Republic of Texas begin "impeachment" proceedings against Richard

McLaren as the group, under pressure from law enforcement authorities, fragments.

March 10, California: Elizabeth Broderick of Palmdale, California, is sentenced to nearly seventeen years in prison on 28

charges related to selling more than 8,000 fraudulent "Comptroller Warrants" with a face value of more than $800 million.

Several accomplices also receive prison sentences in subsequent weeks.

March 12, Connecticut: "Sovereign citizens" John Barney and Nina Barney of Salisbury, CT, appear in court on charges of

criminal trespass and interfering with police. They are members of a common law court and they refuse to vacate the

properties where they live despite having hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of unpaid loans.

March 13, Washington, Idaho: FBI agents arrest a fourth suspect, Brian Ratigan, in the Spokane bombings, about the same

time as the prosecution rests in the trial of three other suspects.

March 13, Oklahoma: Former Tulsa opera singer Carol Elizabeth Howe is indicted in Federal court in Tulsa, accused of

willfully making a bomb threat, possession of a non-registered destructive device and conspiracy. James Dodson Viefhous,

already in custody, is also indicted. The two are founders and members of the National Socialist Alliance of Oklahoma, as

well as part of the Aryan Intelligence Network. They left a message on this phone network that bombs would be detonated in

15 US cities unless action was taken by December 15 by "white warriors" against the government of the U.S.

March 13, Ohio, Pennsylvania: Aryan Republican Army members Scott Stedeford and Peter Langan plead not guilty to

conspiracy charges related to bank robberies they carried out. Both have been previously convicted on armed robbery

charges. Mark Thomas, an Aryan Nations leader in Pennsylvania, previously pled guilty to the charges. Thomas and

another defendant are cooperating with government investigators; a fifth defendant, Michael Brescia, is jailed and awaiting

trial. Another suspect committed suicide in jail.

March 17, Montana, Indiana: Joe Holland, leader of the North American Volunteer Militia, is sentenced in Missoula, Montana, to 10 years in prison for jury tampering and advocating violence. He is also indicted on charges in Indiana.