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packman

(16,296 posts)
Tue Jan 12, 2016, 11:51 AM Jan 2016

Longest hold out in America ends: 2000 to2015

&quot John) Gray, a 66-year-old carpenter with alleged ties to anti-government militia groups, has not left his fortified Trinity, Texas, property since January 2000, after he was accused of assaulting a Texas State Police trooper during a traffic stop. Trinity is a small city located about 60 miles south of Dallas."

Nutcase assaults a trooper, runs to his 46 acre compound with his family and a slew of guns and defies the law to come and get him. Even the mighty Chuck Norris offered him support.

Now here's the kicker - the charges were dropped in 2014. The guy spent 15 years jailed in his own self-made prison.

Does this dated video look familiar:

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Gray gave an interview to ABC News ... saying, "If they come out after us, bring extra body bags. Those who live by the sword will die by the sword."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/armed-standoff-john-joe-gray_5693f1fde4b0c8beacf7d631
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