Schaeffer Cox and Co. plead not guilty to charges.

From Fairbanks Newsminer:

The five Fairbanks-area residents arrested March 10 for allegedly plotting to kill and kidnap local officials appeared together in the Rabinowitz Courthouse on Tuesday to face charges returned by a grand jury.

All five defendants now have attorneys and pleaded not guilty to all charges.

According to a charging document filed March 11, the five defendants had developed a plan called “241” — two for one — to forcibly resist any attempt to execute a warrant on co-defendant Francis “Schaeffer” Cox, who was wanted for failing to face a misdemeanor weapon charge at a Feb. 14 jury trial.

The defendants were functioning as “command staff” members of Cox’s Peacemakers Militia, had identified targets for murder and kidnapping and had stockpiled weapons for the task, according to the charging document.

Much of the evidence against the defendants so far reportedly comes from a series of secret FBI recordings of militia meetings.

I believe THIS is my favorite part of the article.

At the arraignment Tuesday, the defendants entered the room one at a time. Unlike previous hearings at the Fairbanks Federal Courthouse and the Fairbanks Correctional Center, they were all in courtroom at the same time. All wore pink shirts, orange jumpsuits and handcuffs.

Kind of hard to swagger and act like a bad ass while resplendently attired in pink, orange, and accessorized with metal handcuffs now isn't it?

I am not a religious man but I am praying like crazy that this trial gets moved to Anchorage.  You can bet your ass I will be right there everyday if in fact it does.

I wonder if I am allowed to bring my popcorn in the courtroom?

Update: Alaska Dispatch is on the case of the missing militia "supply sergeant."

On March 15, a Drop Zone employee arrived at work to find Anchorage attorney Wayne Anthony Ross waiting for him in the parking lot. Ross had documents, signed by Fulton, handing over the shop with all its debts and assets to the employee.

The militia's email lists, websites and Internet chat groups where Fulton was an active participant under the names "Drop Zone Bill," "DZ" and "Bob Bob" started buzzing. "Anybody know what happened to DZ?" queried a poster named ironartist.

Others began to theorize that Fulton had gone underground to ready a “safe room” for the “fallout that could possibly be coming.”

Well my theory about the whereabouts of William Fulton is a little less Red Dawn, and a little more The Informant!, which I laid out fairly comprehensively in my previous post on Saturday.

Go ahead and read the article at the Dispatch and tell me which possibility sounds the most logical to you.