FBI focuses on sovereign citizen extremists, uses drones to arrest family

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation is keeping a closer eye on “sovereign citizen” extremists, reported the Associated Press.

The FBI website describes sovereign citizens as, “anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or “sovereign” from the United States.”

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"In Dec. 2011, an unmanned aircraft was used to help local law enforcement officials track a case involving missing cows after they were chased off a farm by sovereign citizens armed with rifles, according to The Los Angeles Times. “Police rushed in and made the first known arrests of US citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that has helped revolutionize modern warfare. The people arrested were allegedly a family of sovereign citizen extremists, with guns, weapons, bows and arrows found on their property.”

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