BOOBY-TRAPPED? NEW AUCTION SET FOR TAX MILITANTS' PROPERTIES

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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Federal officials are trying once more to sell New Hampshire properties formerly owned by now-jailed tax militants, including a 100-acre parcel that may be booby-trapped.

The first auction 13 months ago of the properties seized from Ed and Elaine Brown failed to field any bidders, in part because potential buyers couldn't tour the 100-acre section. A second auction is planned for October.

The towns of Lebanon and Plainfield, where the properties are located, are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes and interest.

The Browns are now in their 70s. They were sentenced to five years in prison for tax evasion and staged a nine-month standoff in 2007 with police who came to take them into custody.

Both are serving sentences of more than 30 years in prison.