Subj: Arrest of Fritz Springmeier in Oregon
Date: 3/3/2001 9:20:54 PM Eastern Standard Time
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The following is a copy of the article describing the arrest of Fritz
Springmeier. Any information is appreciated as we are investigating EXACTLY
how Fritz was SET UP. He was NOT a drug user, only a searcher of
truth.....which unfortunately lands you in jail.

Any information is also appreciated on the girl he married after a whirlwind
2 week relationship. She is 45, was living in Denver in Aug 2000. Her name
was Patricia Madigan. Please forward all information. Thanks........

Ken, I need a number for you, I attempted to call that cell number and it
would not connect me. HELP!!!

Deputies, feds arrest Corbett couple

An investigation continues into activities of a white separatist group,
including drugs and weapons

Friday, March 2, 2001

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By Stuart Tomlinson of The Oregonian staff
CORBETT -- Federal agents and Clackamas County sheriff's deputies arrested a
Corbett couple Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into the
activities of a white separatist group.

Fritz A. Springmeier, 45, also known as Victor E. Schoff, and his wife,
Patricia Springmeier, 46, are accused of first-degree manufacture and
distribution of a controlled substance, and conspiracy to manufacture and
distribute controlled substances. They are being held in the Clackamas County
Jail.

Agents from the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
as well as sheriff's deputies searched the couple's home on Groce Road for
several hours Thursday, said Deputy Angela Blanchard, spokeswoman for the
Clackamas County Sheriff's Department.

Blanchard said police seized equipment used to grow marijuana, several
weapons and white separatist literature. The weapons were not "anything
illegal to have in your home," she said.

Fritz Springmeier was known for writing books and tracts on the beliefs of
the Christian Patriot Association, an ultra-right-wing group based in Boring.
"He does a lot of public speaking and proclaims himself to be a self-employed
author," Blanchard said.

Last month, police arrested three people in a Sandy-area home and seized
military-style weapons and 50 marijuana plants. Two of the people were
released, but a third suspect, Forrest E. Bateman Jr., 29, is being held at
the Justice Center Jail in Portland on outstanding warrants for previous
charges of assault and illegal possession of an AK-47 assault rifle.

In the Feb. 9 raid, agents also seized a small amount of ammonium nitrate and
fuel oil, and literature affiliated with the Army of God, a white supremacist
group connected to the 1997 bombings of an abortion clinic and a gay
nightclub in Atlanta.

Blanchard said Fritz Springmeier and Bateman met at a Christian Patriot
Association meeting several years ago.

"We think that part of their supplemental income came from selling
marijuana," she said. "We believe they were very close and worked in concert
together to operate a marijuana grown operation."

In November, federal agents arrested six members of the Christian Patriot
Association on accusations of operating a $186 million "warehouse bank"
scheme in Clackamas County that allowed 900 people across the nation to hide
their money from the Internal Revenue Service. The case has not yet come to
trial.