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September 14, 2007 By Brian Harmon, Daily News Long Island Bureau Chief
Cops found a pipe bomb and anti-government literature at the Brookhaven home of an Army enlistee accused in a federal indictment of helping a New Hampshire couple in a potentially deadly tax-evasion campaign, police said yesterday.
The indictment says that 21-year-old Jason Gerhard - arrested Wednesday at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri - helped Ed and Elaine Brown fortify their Plainfield, N.H., property with surveillance designed to detect approaching law enforcement officers.
Gerhard and three other men also arrested bought guns and other weapons for the Browns and "publicly announced their intention to forcibly resist efforts by the U.S. Marshals Service to arrest" the Browns, according to the indictment.
The tax-protesting couple was sentenced in April to five years in federal prison after being convicted in January of scheming to avoid federal income taxes by hiding $1.9 million of income between 1996 and 2003, mainly from Elaine Brown's dental practice.
The Browns have been holed up in their fortress-like home since the beginning of the year, insisting that an attempt to arrest them will trigger a Waco-style confrontation. They call the federal income tax not legitimate and unconstitutional.
"This was a tax case," U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said, "but over the last seven months, the Browns have allegedly obstructed justice and encouraged others to assist them.
"Ed Brown has threatened to kill law enforcement and other governmental officials. So our message to the Browns is clear: Do the right thing: Call us and surrender peacefully," Monier added.
The search of Gerhard's home - set far back from Montauk Highway and surrounded by woods - began late Wednesday and continued yesterday. Along with the pipe bomb, authorities confiscated rifles, said Tim Motz, a Suffolk County Police spokesman.
Suffolk cops, along with U.S. marshals and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, carried out the search warrant.
Gerhard is charged with conspiracy against federal officers, conspiracy against the United States and weapons possession. The name of Gerhard's attorney was not immediately available.
September 14, 2007 By Brian Harmon, Daily News Long Island Bureau Chief
Cops found a pipe bomb and anti-government literature at the Brookhaven home of an Army enlistee accused in a federal indictment of helping a New Hampshire couple in a potentially deadly tax-evasion campaign, police said yesterday.
The indictment says that 21-year-old Jason Gerhard - arrested Wednesday at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri - helped Ed and Elaine Brown fortify their Plainfield, N.H., property with surveillance designed to detect approaching law enforcement officers.
Gerhard and three other men also arrested bought guns and other weapons for the Browns and "publicly announced their intention to forcibly resist efforts by the U.S. Marshals Service to arrest" the Browns, according to the indictment.
The tax-protesting couple was sentenced in April to five years in federal prison after being convicted in January of scheming to avoid federal income taxes by hiding $1.9 million of income between 1996 and 2003, mainly from Elaine Brown's dental practice.
The Browns have been holed up in their fortress-like home since the beginning of the year, insisting that an attempt to arrest them will trigger a Waco-style confrontation. They call the federal income tax not legitimate and unconstitutional.
"This was a tax case," U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said, "but over the last seven months, the Browns have allegedly obstructed justice and encouraged others to assist them.
"Ed Brown has threatened to kill law enforcement and other governmental officials. So our message to the Browns is clear: Do the right thing: Call us and surrender peacefully," Monier added.
The search of Gerhard's home - set far back from Montauk Highway and surrounded by woods - began late Wednesday and continued yesterday. Along with the pipe bomb, authorities confiscated rifles, said Tim Motz, a Suffolk County Police spokesman.
Suffolk cops, along with U.S. marshals and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, carried out the search warrant.
Gerhard is charged with conspiracy against federal officers, conspiracy against the United States and weapons possession. The name of Gerhard's attorney was not immediately available.