CARSON, N.D. (AP) – Two white supremacists were charged with terrorizing after they carried guns in the small North Dakota town they want to turn into a white enclave.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grant County authorities arrested 62-year-old Craig Cobb and 29-year-old Kynan Dutton on Saturday after residents of Leith called for help, saying the two men were threatening them with guns.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Grant County authorities say Cobb and Dutton were charged with four counts of felony terrorizing and will appear in court Monday afternoon.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cobb told The Bismarck Tribune ) the group started armed patrols because they’re being harassed.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cobb bought up property in Leith in hopes of attracting more white supremacists there and taking over the town’s government. Dutton is among the first to join Cobb in Leith, about 75 miles southwest of Bismarck.<\/p>\n
Previously, Nov 16, 2013<\/p>\n
KFYR TV reports that the Grant County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed\u00a0white separatist, Craig Cobb, has been taken in to custody.<\/p>\n
KFYR received an eye-witness account of what happened earlier Saturday afternoon that led to Cobb and his supporter Kynan Dutton being taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Greg Bruce was in Leith to help Lee Cook install a surveillance camera on his house when Cobb and Dutton walked across town with guns and approached them.<\/p>\n
“Craig Cobb and Kynan Dutton approached myself and Lee Cook with a shotgun and rifle in hand,” Bruce said. “I took photographs, they walked around town twice, they followed Miller Ferry home, scared her with a shotgun and rifle in hand and we called 911 the Grant County Sheriffs came out with the two deputies, John Foss and Derrick and took them into custody, handcuffed them.”<\/p>\n
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