Buyer beware? Feds to warn of land mines, booby traps on tax militants' auctione

[Silent_Bob]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/20/buyer-beware-feds-to-warn-land-mines-booby-traps-on-tax-militants-auctioned-nh/

   

CONORD, N.H. –  Federal officials are preparing to sell the New Hampshire compound of a tax-evading couple convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons, but they can't guarantee that explosives and other booby traps aren't hidden on the 103-acre spread.

Prospective buyers won't be allowed on the property unless their winning bid seals the deal and frees the government of liability for dismemberment or death.

Ed and Elaine Brown were in a nine-month standoff with authorities in 2007 after they were sentenced to five years in prison for tax evasion. They were convicted in 2009 of amassing weapons, explosives and booby traps and of plotting to kill federal agents who came to arrest them.

Federal marshals say they're still hammering out the disclaimer language and the auction won't take place before September.

[Russell Kanning]

How are the weeds at Elaine old place that the feds turned into trash in west leb?

[WithoutAPaddle]

Pricey, possibly bomb-laden property no easy sell

Saturday, November 29, 2014


CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — It turns out there isn't a huge market for a $250,000-plus, 100-acre New Hampshire property that may be booby-trapped.

The sale of the Plainfield compound owned by a now-jailed pair of tax evaders who held off police during a nine-month armed standoff is beset by problems both procedural and perilous. High bidders would have only seven days to come up with the financing for the property they have to buy largely sight-unseen because it could be filled with hidden explosives.

No bidders showed up at an Aug. 15 auction of the Plainfield compound where fugitives Ed and Elaine Brown holed up in 2007.

The U.S. Marshals Service says they expect to hold a second auction but are still working out details.



FILE - This Jan. 17, 2007, file photo shows the home of Ed and Elaine Brown in Plainfield, N.H. The Brown's were convicted in 2009 of amassing weapons, explosives and booby traps and plotting to kill federal agents who came to arrest them in the home. After an auction to empty chairs in August, marshals in New Hampshire are attempting to regroup and hire a professional auctioneer and the officials in the two towns owed substantial back taxes on the properties are more frustrated than ever. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

[Russell Kanning]

I love how worried "officials" are ...... as if every step could be your last there.

[Riddler]

I bet prospective buyer can just go to the prison & Ed would gladly draw a map of IED's
.....sure, no problem

[Jim Johnson]

They should ask the Fed Moles where the IEDs are located. They are the only ones who would have done such a thing.

[Tom Sawyer]

They should ask the Fed Moles where the IEDs are located. They are the only ones who would have done such a thing.

Agreed, they encouraged and supported the planning of violent acts. Talking him into making a "destructive device" guarantees a thirty year mandatory sentence.

The comedic actor Tim Allen was enticed into a 1kg coke deal because that carried a life sentence and they knew that they could crush him into becoming a snitch.

[Russell Kanning]

yep

[Riddler]

Randy Weaver - Ruby Ridge....Entrapment over a sawed - off shotgun....dead wife & kid.
Pretty sure there were/are far more nefarious threats to the populace.