It started as a traffic stop for a broken tail light. Then the case of self-proclaimed sovereign citizen Michael Mattingly devolved into a series of delays, unusual filings and, eventually, a ...

PITTSTON — A man claiming to be a sovereign citizen immune from prosecution attempted to light a couch on fire Sunday night on Cliff Street, city police said. Willie Jamaal McCoy, 42, is charged with ...

It’s easy to sovereign citizens as conspiracy theorists, tinfoil-hatters, or anarchists. But step inside their orbit and you soon find one common theme.

A man displaying a homemade “sovereign citizen” license plate repeatedly called 911 to report the police were attempting to seize the unauthorized tag and then resisted arrest when officers attempted ...

Police in Western Australia have seized guns and revoked or suspended firearms permits from dozens of owners linked to what investigators describe as sovereign citizen ideologies, or views that reject ...

The Australian government is being warned the "sovereign citizen" movement has become a clear and present threat to the nation's security. Long regarded as "mostly a nuisance" by authorities, ...

The sovereign citizen movement, according to a 2013 paper from the University of North Carolina School of Government, is a catch-all term encompassing several anti-government groups such as the ...