‘Sovereign citizen’ filings flood Pima County, parallel national resurgence of controversial movement

by Isaac Stone Simonelli and Brendon Derr | Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting PART I A 63-page packet arrived at the Pima County Recorder’s Office in January, postmarked from Texas with unusual formatting identifying the sender: oddly hyphenated names, stray colons and bracketed-off zip codes. The text’s jumbled punctuation marks, interwoven with rambling pseudo-legal phrasing, … Continue reading ‘Sovereign citizen’ filings flood Pima County, parallel national resurgence of controversial movement