Grifters gotta grift: The Wall edition [and more!]

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Here's another one from today:

The leader of a right-wing militia known as the Stevens County Assembly will soon travel from West Virginia to Washington State — in law enforcement custody...

According to court documents, beginning in late February several militia members found identical letters near their homes threatening physical harm and demanding sums ranging from $10,000 to $250,000.

“The author of the letters claimed to be an organization from outside of the United States and insinuated that it was likely from [a] Mexican cartel,”

It's those darn messican druggies agin!

Tony Donnelly...found a threatening letter on his girlfriend Gayle Collins’ gate, [but] failed to follow his extorter’s advice to put the demanded money in the mailbox. Instead, Donnelly “set up a hidden camera..."

Donnelly [later] provided authorities a grainy video and a picture of a white SUV driving away from the scene, one that authorities later determined looked “very similar” to Bolton’s.

In what the piece's author rightfully describes as a Coen-brothers-esque series of unfortunate events, Bolton also tried to kill a fellow militia member at Bolton's home, and also claimed that his wife had been kidnapped, convincing a friend to pitch in $100K.

...After Etchieson heard from Bolton that the kidnappers had released Bolton’s wife — yet, per Bolton, were still demanding money — Etchieson “began to question the validity of Bolton’s story.”

...In a subsequent email to all militia members, Bolton wrote that the group would no longer be holding their monthly meeting in the town of Chewelah [WA], population 2,600.

“WA state is being overrun by socialist/liberals and there doesn’t seem to be any organized force to stop them,” he explained, adding: “I am not deterred, just relocated.”

He's...umm...currently being "re-relocated" back to WA to face charges...

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