Atlanta ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Sentenced to Six Years for Possessing a Firearm
Eventually all of these dangerous bozos go to jail.
n further efforts to establish his “right” to the residence, court documents say, Gibson “taped to the windows fraudulent Quiet [sic] Claim Deeds and other sovereign citizen documents” declaring he “was a Foreign Official and that the Property was a Foreign Embassy.”
Despite his efforts, the sale closed in April 2013, but the new buyer couldn’t move in because Gibson still remained in the home, illegally possessing firearms despite his felony record. Eventually, the mortgage lender and the homeowner joined together to file paperwork in DeKalb County to have Gibson evicted.
In the meantime, the FBI had begun a racketeering investigation into a dozen sovereign citizens, including Gibson, who had begun illegally occupying homes in eight Georgia counties, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in 2012.
On May 2, 2013, police obtained an arrest warrant after several people claimed to have seen long-barrel guns on the properties. Police served a search warrant at the home Gibson was illegally occupying and found a .38 caliber revolver in Gibson’s bed. It remains unclear if long guns were ever found on the premises.
Throughout the trial, Gibson proclaimed his innocence and protested the validity of the court. A day before his trial began, he filed a rambling 17-page, typed-written “affidavit of truth” in which he described himself as a “living, breathing, flesh-and-blood man living under the laws of the God, Father and Creator of the boundless universe…” He also claimed that the U.S. courts had no jurisdiction over him “because it is not really a court as per Article III of Constitution of the United States, but rather a tribunal operated as a private corporation…”
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