First, it was Sharon Kukhahn and her ridiculous decoding strategy. Now, I get the joy of reporting about David Myrland.
Mr. Myrland will be sentenced on December 2nd after pleading guilty to a tax charge. Mr. Myrland is a believer that he is a sovereign citizen and thus immune from the IRS. At least, I think that’s the snake oil he’s trying to sell. But that’s just the beginning.
Mr. Myrland was unhappy about being arrested. So he decided to issue an arrest warrant himself, asking that Joan McBride, the Mayor of Kirkland, Washington, be arrested. Private citizens can make citizen’s arrests when there’s a crime being committed, but private citizens can’t issue arrest warrants.
The federal prosecutor isn’t as amused as I was when I read this. As reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
“He continues to this day to apparently believe that he was in the right, and everyone else is in the wrong,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Vince Lombardi told the court. “Despite his guilty plea, he continues to argue that he had a legal right to make the threats he made … and that he was in the right in virtually every respect.”
“Myrland’s arrogance, his anger and his inability to even consider the possibility that he is in the wrong in this matter come through in his various letters to the court,” Lombardi continued. “The evidence amply supports (the) conclusion that Mr. Myrland remains a danger to the community and is a virtual certainty to re-offend.”
Somehow, I suspect that the sentencing judge may tell Mr. Myrland something about threatening public officials when he’s sentenced on the 2nd.
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