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Two sovereign citizens arrested after taking over and squatting in someone else’s property for months

January 27, 2024 | | Print Article

Two Arkansas squatters who claimed sovereign status have finally been arrested, putting an end to a months-long ordeal.

According to a press release from the Sharp County Sheriff’s Office, they began investigating in August after the two individuals moved “an RV and an enclosed trailer onto a property owned by someone else.”

But when they tried to serve an eviction notice to the obnoxious squatters, the two claimed they were “members of a sovereign citizen group known as the Moorish National Republic.”

“They provided documentation, which was a false legal document claiming the ground as sovereign property and they could not be forced to leave,” the press release continues.

Posted by Sharp County Sheriff’s Office on Friday, January 26, 2024

Afterward, the two continued their activities on the property, going so far as to build “a permanent structure,” dig a septic line, install solar panels, and store “large amounts of water.”

It’s at this point that the sheriff’s department became aware that the group has been linked to violence.

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“Today, America’s law enforcement officers often have volatile encounters with these ‘sovereign citizen’ Moors, as they teach and believe that due to their historical ethnicity as Moors, supported by an arcane treaty signed in 1787 between the United States and Morocco, the laws of our nation simply do not apply to them,” according to Police magazine.

Learn more about the Moors below:

Fast-forward to Jan. 25th, when the Sharp County Sheriff’s Office — with assistance from several other local authorities — executed a search warrant on the property that the Moors had commandeered.

“The individuals were discovered to be living ‘off grid,'” the press release notes. “They were taken into custody without incident however they have refused to identify themselves.”

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“Detectives believe that they have discovered the identity but will not release any names until the investigation is complete. During the investigation, the Male subject has identified himself as Saleem Yosiyah YisraEl,” the press release continues.

The authorities found multiple vehicles on the property, all of them with “fictitious license plates” linked to their fake sovereign group.

The authorities also discovered evidence that the two squatters had been scamming people both through the mail and the Internet.

“Several Thousand Dollars of Iraqi Currency was also located in envelopes. The items on the property were seized and secured by the Sheriff’s Office. We are also in communication with the FBI concerning the fraudulent documentation and other cybercrimes,” the press release concludes.

The last time the Moors made major headlines was in 2021 when reports emerged that the police were chasing after a group of “heavily armed” anti-government extremists in Massachusetts.

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At the time, leftists automatically assumed that the extremists were white supremacist men. They couldn’t have been any more wrong.

“The standoff began around 2 a.m. when police noticed two cars pulled over on I-95 with hazard lights on after they had apparently run out of fuel, authorities said at a Saturday press briefing,” the Associated Press reported at the time.

“At least some of the suspects were clad in military-style gear with long guns and pistols, Mass State Police Col. Christopher Mason said. He added that they were headed to Maine from Rhode Island for ‘training,’” according to the AP.

“You can imagine 11 armed individuals standing with long guns slung on an interstate highway at 2 in the morning certainly raises concerns and is not consistent with the firearms laws that we have in Massachusetts,” Mason noted.

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The extremists tried fleeing, but the police surrounded them. A standoff ensued and the extremists eventually surrendered. Before surrendering, however, one of the extremists live-streamed his thoughts from the scene.

As seen above, the suspects were black. In fact, they were members of a black extremist group, the “Rise of the Moors,” that “espouses a conspiracy-based, anti-government agenda that combines sovereign-citizen beliefs with those of the Moorish Science Temple,” according to the Boston Herald.

“The group’s sovereign-citizen beliefs mean that ‘what you and I would think of as legitimate government is an illegitimate government that holds no authority over them whatsoever,’” the Herald reported, quoting from an alleged extremist expert.

Meanwhile, the group’s Moorish beliefs were essentially black supremacist in nature, in that they stated “that African Americans, i.e. Moors, have certain special privileges and status,” according to the expert cited by the Herald.

And so, far from being white supremacist men, the extremists were black supremacist men. Whoops.

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