Kent Hovind, a creationist known as “Dr. Dino,” is currently serving time as a guest of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He was convicted of 45 counts of “structuring” (aka “smurfing”) and a dozen counts of failing to pay federal income and FICA taxes for the “missionaries” (aka employees) working at “Dinosaur Adventure Land.” He was sent to prison in 2007 and was expected to get out in August 2015.

Was.

Hovind was indicted about 10 days ago, along with another guy, on mail fraud charges for filing legal documents (“lis pendens”) in an attempt to hang up the legal title on some of the properties associated with “Dinosaur Adventure Land.” The feds had seized the land as part of the fines and arrearages Hovind was determined to owe. He did this after being explicitly told by a federal judge not to do it. Apparently the judge and the prosecutor want to get this over *quick* since the actual trial is scheduled for December 1.

A little more in this article:

pnj.com

It should be noted that “Dr. Dino” has been a longtime fan of sovereign citizen theories and at one point tried to renounce his American citizenship to evade taxes. Some people think he shouldn’t be prosecuted and that it’s overkill, but I’m of the opinion that sovereign citizens are a plague and need to be dealt with.