Darren Huff, an “Oafkeeper”, was on his way from Georgia to Tennessee with a Colt .45 and an AK-47, prepared to take over a courthouse and make citizen’s arrests.
Huff was steamed by the arrest of Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, another Oafkeeper, a self-styled “sovereign citizen” who entered the courthouse to try to arrest a grand jury foreman.
Fitzpatrick had drafted “citizen’s arrest warrants” for state, city and local officials, and previously had tried to get a grand jury to indict President Obama on a charge of treason.
FBI agents observed Huff leaving his home around 6:15 that morning. Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers pulled him over in Sweetwater for traffic violations of traffic control device, registration law, and following too closely.
The troopers said Huff volunteered that he planned to travel to Madisonville to take over the courthouse, to arrest the people on Fitzpatrick’s warrants–who he termed “domestic enemies of the United States engaged in treason”–and to turn those arrested over to state police to place in jail.