NWO Gestapo siege another Patriot's home after Waco style standoff and gunfire
VIOLA - A landowner known to have "strong anti-government attitudes" surrendered after a daylong standoff with police Thursday, but not before an exchange of gunfire, deployment of tear gas and a fire in the man's house, authorities said.
Officers tried to contact the man through the day, and when they tried again in the afternoon, they were fired upon and returned fire, as well as deploying te
More..ar gas, according to Darin Gudgeon, emergency management director for Richland County in southwestern Wisconsin.
As the operation was going on, a fire started in the home, and soon after that, 60-year-old Robert Bayliss surrendered and was taken into custody of the Richland County Sheriff's Department, said Gudgeon, who also is a deputy with the department.
No one was injured.
The dispute had started four days earlier when some deputies tried to serve Bayliss with a lawsuit seeking to evict him for failure to pay property taxes back to 2001 on his home and 18 acres, County Corporation Counsel Benjamin Southwick said. The county took ownership of the land last November for the unpaid taxes, Southwick said.
Numerous shots from a rifle were fired at the officers who went to the property on Monday, Gudgeon said. Authorities then developed a plan to deal with the situation.
On Thursday, SWAT officers used an armored vehicle to try to serve a search warrant and arrest warrants at a home, located two miles south of Viola.
They encountered shots and ended up in the standoff, Gudgeon said.
Lt. Bob Frank, a spokesman for the sheriff's department, said officers tried to talk to Bayliss with a bullhorn because he did not have a telephone.
Bayliss was known as "a person who had very strong anti-government attitudes and beliefs" and who would carry a rifle and show it, Southwick said.
He owes $5,647 in delinquent taxes and interest on the land and has not paid the taxes for seven years, according to the county treasurer's office.
The fire in the house had been contained Thursday evening and firefighters were putting it out, Frank said.
The cause remained under investigation.
Bayliss faced a charge filed Thursday of intentionally pointing a firearm at a law enforcement officer.
Frank said there could be other charges filed. He did not know of any lawyer representing Bayliss, and there was no defense lawyer listed on the computerized court record regarding the charge filed Thursday. Less..
Added: Apr 4 2008 In: news_politics
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