The information I have came from a newspaper called "The Oregonian" via a
militia watchdog list. Here it is:
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>Deputies, feds arrest Corbett couple
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>An investigation continues into activities of a white separatist group,
>including drugs and weapons
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>Friday, March 2, 2001
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>By Stuart Tomlinson of The Oregonian staff
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>CORBETT -- Federal agents and Clackamas County sheriff's deputies arrested a
>Corbett couple Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into the
>activities of a white separatist group.
>
>Fritz A. Springmeier, 45, also known as Victor E. Schoff, and his wife,
>Patricia Springmeier, 46, are accused of first-degree manufacture and
>distribution of a controlled substance, and conspiracy to manufacture and
>distribute controlled substances. They are being held in the Clackamas
>County Jail.
>
>Agents from the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
>as well as sheriff's deputies searched the couple's home on Groce Road for
>several hours Thursday, said Deputy Angela Blanchard, spokeswoman for the
>Clackamas County Sheriff's Department.
>
>Blanchard said police seized equipment used to grow marijuana, several
>weapons and white separatist literature. The weapons were not "anything
>illegal to have in your home," she said.
>
>Fritz Springmeier was known for writing books and tracts on the beliefs of
>the Christian Patriot Association, an ultra-right-wing group based in Boring.
>"He does a lot of public speaking and proclaims himself to be a self-employed
>author," Blanchard said.
>
>Last month, police arrested three people in a Sandy-area home and seized
>military-style weapons and 50 marijuana plants. Two of the people were
>released, but a third suspect, Forrest E. Bateman Jr., 29, is being held at
>the Justice Center Jail in Portland on outstanding warrants for previous
>charges of assault and illegal possession of an AK-47 assault rifle.
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>In the Feb. 9 raid, agents also seized a small amount of ammonium nitrate and
>fuel oil, and literature affiliated with the Army of God, a white supremacist
>group connected to the 1997 bombings of an abortion clinic and a gay
>nightclub in Atlanta.
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>Blanchard said Fritz Springmeier and Bateman met at a Christian Patriot
>Association meeting several years ago.
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>"We think that part of their supplemental income came from selling
>marijuana," she said. "We believe they were very close and worked
>in concert together to operate a marijuana grown operation."
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>In November, federal agents arrested six members of the Christian Patriot
>Association on accusations of operating a $186 million "warehouse bank"
>scheme in Clackamas County that allowed 900 people across the nation to
>hide their money from the Internal Revenue Service. The case has not yet
>come to trial.
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