Two sovereign citizens arrested after taking over and occupying someone else's property for months

Two Arkansas squatters claiming statehood have finally been arrested, ending a months-long ordeal.

According to a statement from the Sharp County Sheriff's Office, they began investigating in August after the two individuals moved “an enclosed RV and trailer onto property owned by another person.”

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

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

The two then 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 was at this point that the sheriff's department realized the group was linked to violence.

“Today, American law enforcement officers often do this volatile encounters with these Moors “sovereign citizens” as they teach and believe that because of their historical ethnicity as Moors, backed 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

More about Moors below:

Fast forward to January 25th, when the Sharp County Sheriff's Office, with the help of several other local authorities, executed a search warrant on the property the Moriscos had seized.

“Individuals were found to be living off the grid,” the press release notes. “They were taken into custody without incident, but have refused to identify themselves.”

“Detectives believe they have discovered the identity, but will not release a name until the investigation is complete. During the investigation, the male subject has been identified as Saleem Yosiyah YisraEl,” the press release continued.

Authorities found several vehicles on the property, all with “fictitious license plates” linked to his fake sovereign group.

Authorities also discovered evidence that the two squatters had defrauded people through both the mail and the Internet.

“Several thousand dollars of Iraqi currency was also found in envelopes. Items on the property were seized and secured by the Sheriff's Office. We are also in communication with the FBI regarding fraudulent documentation and other cyber crimes,” concludes the statement.

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

Leftists then automatically assumed that extremists were white supremacist men. They couldn't have been more wrong.

Thrown to the left when his narrative breaks out about 11 armed members of the group Rise of the Moors https://t.co/g6Me4Bqacs pic.twitter.com/Ytw2c9PXym

— BPR (@BIZPACReview) July 4, 2021

“The standoff began around 2 a.m. when police noticed two cars stopped on I-95 with their hazard lights on after apparently running out of fuel, authorities said in a wheel press on Saturday,” the Associated Press reported at the time.

“At least some of the suspects were dressed in military-style gear with long guns and handguns,” said Mass. State Police Col. Christopher Mason. 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 hanging on an interstate highway at 2 in the morning certainly raises concerns and is inconsistent with the firearms laws we have in Massachusetts,” Mason noted.

The extremists tried to flee, but the police surrounded them. A clash ensued and the extremists eventually surrendered. Before surrendering, however, one of the extremists broadcast his thoughts live from the scene.

“I have expressed to you several times that we are not anti-government.”

An armed uniformed man speaking to MSP negotiators amid a standoff at 95 while live streaming to an IG account for the Moorish Constitutional Convention Committee. @wbz https://t.co/swiYDUFnIT pic.twitter.com/2oKJqrGg5G

— Anaridis Rodriguez (@Anaridis) July 3, 2021

“We're on Interstate 95 in Massachusetts … The police saw us on the side of the road with our guns secured. We were scared, so we got out.”

A man who identifies himself as Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey is also on YouTube broadcasting on the Rise of the Moors account. @wbz pic.twitter.com/PfaqzUTjxR

— Anaridis Rodriguez (@Anaridis) July 3, 2021

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

“The group's sovereign citizen beliefs mean that 'what you and I think of as a legitimate government is an illegitimate government that has no authority over them,'” the Herald reported, citing a purported extremist expert.

Meanwhile, the group's Moorish beliefs were essentially black supremacist in nature, asserting “that African-Americans, meaning Moors, have certain privileges and special status,” according to the expert cited by the Herald.

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

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V. Saxena is a BizPac Review staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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