Feds Find Guns, Bomb Supplies in Tax Protester’s Survivalist Bunker
The 43-year-old suspect is now in jail on federal charges accusing him of federal firearms violations, income tax evasion and attempting to interfere with the administration of Internal Revenue laws.
The case of the tax protester who built an expensive and elaborate survivalist bunker and amassed an arsenal of weapons raised eyebrows in North Carolina.
Court documents say DeHaan built his concrete-reinforced bunker in 2014, telling local authorities that he didn’t need a building permit and that if they trespassed on his property, the “Native American Church of Nemenhah, Order of Lehb,” he’d assess them “a civil penalty of One Million Dollars in silver coin.”
About that same time, he filed documents with the Cleveland County, N.C., Register of Deeds renouncing his United States citizenship and claiming he no longer was personally liable for the national debt of the United States. Those acts are similar to those of antigovernment “sovereign citizens” who believe laws, licensing and taxing requirements don’t apply to them.
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