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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

agreement in which all other charges were dropped.

JUNE

June 2, Oklahoma, Colorado: In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted for his role in the bombing of the federal

building in Oklahoma City in April 1995. He is later given the death penalty.

June 4, Florida: A Jacksonville jury acquits Florida "patriot" and ostrich farmer William Law of 21 counts of defrauding

people by placing bogus liens on people involved with his divorce. The jury believed the argument of Law's lawyer that Law

did not defraud anyone because no one would believe the liens were real.

June 5, Arizona: Trial begins for remaining Arizona Viper Militia defendants, Charles Knight. Viper Christopher Floyd still

awaits trial.

June 5, Oklahoma: A federal judge sentences two Oklahoma common law activist Dan Meador to 16 months in prison, three

years supervised release and a $2,000 fine for obstructing justice and illegally communicating with a grand jury. Meador's

case was linked to the case involving Kenney and Colleen Moore and Wayne Gunwall.

June 12, West Virginia: The second of seven defendants, Jack Phillips, in the Mountaineer Militia case agrees to plead guilty

to a charge of conspiracy to make bombs.

June 12, West Virginia: FBI affidavits reveal that the Mountaineer Militia considered killing Jay Rockefeller and Alan

Greenspan, as well as their families, in a "holy war" against the federal government.

June 16, Washington, Ohio: Cheyne Kehoe, wanted since February for a shootout with police in Ohio, surrenders in

Washington. He will be extradited to Ohio.