CornCobb Runs Amok -- In Leith as in Kalispell

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Kyle Dutton to change his plea on terrorizing charges

Kyle Dutton to change his plea on terrorizing charges

By Jenny Michael, jenny.michael@bismarcktribune.com
Lauren Donovan, lauren.donovan@bismarcktribune.com
23 January 2014

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http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0083#post10083

Kynan Dutton, right, and Craig Cobb, left, appeared in district court on a bond hearing in
Bismarck on Monday morning, December 23, 2013. Dutton the Mutt has tuned bitch on CornCobb.

BISMARCK, N.D. _ One of the men accused of threatening residents of Leith is scheduled to change his plea to guilty on felony charges.

A hearing is scheduled Friday morning at the Burleigh County Courthouse for Kynan Dutton, 29, who is charged with seven counts of Class C felony terrorizing.

Grant County State’s Attorney Todd Schwarz said under a plea deal, in exchange for truthful testimony about Craig Cobb, there is a “good chance” Dutton will be released from jail on supervised probation.

Dutton is a white supremacist who moved to Leith in October to join Cobb, 62, in trying to turn the small Grant County town into an all-white enclave. The two men are accused of threatening residents of the town while carrying out armed patrols in November and have been in jail ever since.

Both Dutton and Cobb have been trying to get their bond reduced so they can get out of jail. Dutton is held on a $50,000 cash bond while Cobb is jailed on a $1 million bond.

Cobb, who also faces seven Class C felony counts of terrorizing, is slated to appear at a pretrial conference Feb. 10. Schwarz said he opposes reducing Cobb’s $1 million bond and he said there is no plea agreement in the works for Cobb.

“Cobb is much more culpable,” Schwarz said.

The maximum sentence for a Class C felony is five years in prison and $5,000 in fines.

Reach Jenny Michael at 701-250-8225 or jenny.michael@bismarcktribune.com.

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Dutton pleads guity to charges, to be freed

Dutton pleads guity to charges, to be freed

By Jenny Michael, Bismarck Tribune
January 24, 2014


http://bismarcktribune.com/news/stat...a4bcf887a.html
http://www.whitenationalist.org/foru...0093#post10093

Kynan Dutton plead guilty to seven misdemeanors via
interactive video in district court in Bismarck on Friday morning.
The hair roots done penetrated his brain and made him take a plea.
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One of the white supremacists accused of terrorizing the citizens of Leith will be released from jail after pleading guilty to seven misdemeanors and agreeing to testify against Craig Cobb.

Kynan Dutton, 29, pleaded guilty to five counts of Class A misdemeanor menacing and two counts of Class B misdemeanor disorderly conduct on Friday. The charges were reduced from seven counts of Class C felony terrorizing as part of a plea agreement.

Dutton is a white supremacist who moved to Leith in October to join Cobb, 62, in trying to turn the small Grant County town into an all-white enclave. The two men are accused of threatening residents of the town while carrying out armed patrols in November and have been in jail ever since.

South Central District Judge Donald Jorgensen sentenced Dutton to one year in prison with all but time served suspended and two years of supervised probation on one menacing count but deferred sentencing for two years on the other four menacing charges. Jorgensen also sentenced Dutton to 30-day sentences on the disorderly conduct counts, which already have been served.

The sentence means that if Dutton successfully completes two years of probation, he will have only one menacing conviction and two disorderly conduction convictions on his record.

Dutton appeared via interactive video networking from the Mercer County jail, where he has been held in lieu of bond in the case. Jorgensen, Grant County State’s Attorney Todd Schwarz and defense attorney Rob Quick all were at the Burleigh County Detention Center.

In court, Schwarz said the plea agreement reducing the charges to misdemeanors was appropriate because Dutton had gotten “roped into a situation he didn’t really understand.” Schwarz later elaborated, explaining that Dutton believed he would be moving to a peaceful situation in North Dakota, with a recently remodeled home and plentiful job opportunities.

In reality, the home Dutton and his family were allowed to live in was without many modern conveniences, including indoor plumbing, and the town of Leith already was upset at Cobb’s plans to move in other white supremacists. Additionally, Dutton still believes citizens of Leith vandalized his home and car, when the crimes actually were the work of an associate of Cobb, Schwarz said.

Quick told Jorgensen Dutton has been a pleasure to represent. Dutton served in the Marine Corps in Iraq and has post-traumatic stress disorder. Quick argued that Dutton’s lack of criminal history warranted deferred sentences on all of the menacing charges.

Schwarz said that while Dutton is “much less culpable” in the incident than Cobb and was careful in his handling of his gun during the pair’s armed patrol that landed them in jail.

“That does not relieve him of the consequences of his bad decisions,” Schwarz said, saying suspended sentences were more appropriate than deferred ones.

Dutton told Jorgensen he felt threatened by the people of Leith and the surrounding area before the November incident but acknowledged that nothing had been physically done to him or his family. He repeatedly said he wanted to get the case over with so he could get out of jail and support his family. Dutton said he is a chef with some college education and has several job opportunities open to him when he gets out of jail.

“I’m just eager to get home to my family,” Dutton told Jorgensen.

Dutton told the judge he would like to have his firearms rights intact after the completion of probation but acknowledged understanding if Jorgensen was not comfortable with that.

Schwarz explained after that North Dakota law will prohibit Dutton from possessing weapons for five years following the completion of probation on the menacing charge on which the sentence was not deferred. However, federal laws prohibit Dutton from ever purchasing a firearm because of the menacing conviction, and possessing one later is a gray area under federal law, Schwarz said.

Dutton will be required to testify against Cobb, who also faces seven counts of Class C felony terrorizing. Cobb’s next court hearing is set for Feb. 10.

Schwarz said discussions and plea negotiations are ongoing in Cobb’s case, though he could not elaborate.

“Whether they’ll be fruitful or not, I’m not willing to venture a guess,” he said.

Dutton still has a pending disorderly conduct charge for allegations he yelled profanity at the Leith City Council in October, just weeks after he moved to North Dakota. Dutton was allegedly drunk in that incident. Because of his pleas on Friday, he will have to undergo a chemical dependency evaluation, complete recommended follow-up treatment and must abstain from using or being around alcohol during probation.

After the hearing, Schwarz said he wanted to thank Mercer, Stark and other nearby counties for their assistance in housing Cobb and Dutton and assisting in security and investigations during the case.

Reach Jenny Michael at 701-250-8225 or jenny.michael@bismarcktribune.com.

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Cobb's bond reduced to $100,000

Cobb's bond reduced to $100,000

By Lauren Donovan
January 25, 2014

http://bismarcktribune.com/news/loca...9bb2963f4.html
http://www.whitenationalist.org/foru...0099#post10099

A district court judge has reduced bond for white supremacist Craig Cobb, who is jailed on seven felony terrorizing counts against citizens of Leith.

South Central District Judge Donald Jorgensen reduced Cobb’s bond to $100,000, or 10 percent of the previous bond of $1 million cash.

The order was posted Friday afternoon, just hours after Cobb’s follower, Kynan Dutton, was released on a plea agreement in which he agreed to provide testimony against Cobb.

If he is able to post the $100,000 and leave jail, Cobb may not have any contact with the seven victims named in the alleged terrorizing, the judge said.

Cobb has been jailed in Stanton since his arrest Nov. 16.

Reach reporter Lauren Donovan at 701-220-5511 or lauren@westriv.com.

[Hunter Wallace]

Cobbsville: Kynan Dutton To Testify Against Craig Cobb

Cobbsville: Kynan Dutton To Testify Against Craig Cobb


http://www.occidentaldissent.com/201...st-craig-cobb/
http://www.whitenationalist.org/foru...0104#post10104

North Dakota

Et tu, Kynan?

. . . and now for something serious:

“(Reuters) – A man charged with threatening residents of a small North Dakota town pleaded guilty on Friday to lesser offenses and agreed to testify against a white supremacist who had been working to establish an all-white enclave there, his attorney said.

Kynan Dutton, 29, pleaded guilty to seven misdemeanors and agreed to testify against co-defendant Craig Cobb in a deal with prosecutors that reduced his charges from seven terrorizing felonies, Dutton’s attorney, Robert Quick, said.

Dutton had moved to Leith, North Dakota, a town of about 20 people, to help out Cobb, Quick said. His plea agreement allowed him to be released from jail on Friday. . . . ”

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Hunter Wallace

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Craig Cobb headed for deal that could avert trial

Craig Cobb headed for deal that could avert trial

By Lauren Donovan
February 10, 2014 2:31 pm


http://bismarcktribune.com/news/stat...a4bcf887a.html
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0168#post10168

It appears white supremacist Craig Cobb's case is headed for a plea deal and an
agreement that would preclude a trial on terrorizing Leith residents. The case could
be settled in as few as two weeks.
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CARSON, N.D. — With talk of a plea agreement swirling around his case in recent days and word that his main follower will testify against him, white supremacist Craig Cobb was in the Grant County courtroom for less than a minute Monday morning.

Dressed in an orange jail suit with his gray hair neatly trimmed and his face clean shaven, Cobb barely had time to sit at his attorney’s table before South Central District Judge Gail Hagerty set Cobb’s case for trial and gave both sides three weeks to negotiate a plea deal.

Cobb is charged with seven felony counts of terrorizing residents of Leith, where he bought up empty lots and dilapidated property and planned to take over the town’s government.

His neo-Nazi ideas were shocking and unpopular from the beginning and when he started flying swastika flags, putting up signs with racial slurs, and followers started moving in, the town’s few residents tried to control the takeover.

The situation came to a head on Nov. 16, 2013, when Cobb and follower Kynan Dutton were arrested for carrying long-barreled weapons on an armed patrol of Leith and allegedly terrorizing citizens.

Dutton was released last month on a plea deal in which he promised to testify against Cobb in exchange for reduced charges and probation.

Grant County State’s Attorney Todd Schwarz said he would meet with Cobb’s alleged victims after the short hearing to see if he could get some consensus on an acceptable outcome.

He wouldn’t speculate on how much, if any, prison time would be in the deal.

Schwarz said it’s his job to protect the community and people where Cobb might go from here. He’s in jail in Stanton on $100,000 cash bond.

Schwarz said he’s heard that Cobb may deed his house and other property in Leith back to the city or someone else to whom he owes money.

“If he’s not coming back to Leith I would take that into consideration,” Schwarz said.

In fact, Leith Mayor Ryan Schock said Monday that Cobb has sold his two-story house in Leith to a resident of nearby Carson. The deal with James Kenneth Zimmerman, a mechanic, apparently included two of Cobb’s abandoned vehicles.

The new ownership doesn’t apply to other property Cobb still owns.

Three unrelated and abandoned properties that were condemned in Leith were burned last week. Cobb’s former home must be brought up to code with sewer and running water before it can be be occupied, according to the town’s new ordinances.

A handful of area residents attended the hearing and talked afterward in the courtroom lobby.

Judy Roth of Elgin, formerly of Leith, said she won’t be satisfied with less than a return to the way things were before Cobb started up in August, “not until every lot in town goes back,” she said.

Her sister Peggy Arndt of rural Flasher said she wants Cobb’s vision of a community of haters to end in Leith.

“It needs to stop someplace, or he’ll go on to the next town,” Arndt said.

She and her family talked in the hallway about plans for a Freedom Festival in the summer to celebrate the end of the Cobb’s all-white takeover attempt and the restoration of peace to the community.

Grant County Sheriff Steve Bay said the charges are serious and the residents truly felt terrorized.

“He shouldn’t get off scot-free. Not because it’s a high-profile case, but going back to what he did and the crime at hand,” the sheriff said.

Bay said Cobb has cost the county more than $20,000 in jail boarding fees and medical costs, and the state spent another $21,000 to enforce the law a peace rally across from Cobb’s house in September.

Schwarz said Dutton is prepared to tell a jury what was going on in Cobb’s mind when they picked up guns to patrol Leith and confront residents that cold weekend before Thanksgiving.

He said Cobb primed Dutton by lying about some vandalism to their Leith property. Cobb knew the vandal was actually another white supremacist who was living on his property and had called the police to have the unstable man removed, but hid that information from Dutton, Schwarz said.

Based on Cobb’s state of mind at the time, Schwarz said, he has no doubt there could have been gunfire had Cobb been provoked.

“He was very agitated,” Schwarz said.

The state’s attorney said there is one line he will draw in cement, not sand, on any plea deal.

“Those guns will not be returned to him,” he said.

Reach reporter Lauren Donovan at 701-220-5511 or lauren@westriv.com.

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Leith says 'No deal' for Craig Cobb

Leith says 'No deal' for Craig Cobb

By Lauren Donovan
February 11, 2014 5:34 pm


http://bismarcktribune.com/news/stat...a4bcf887a.html
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0177#post10177

It appears white supremacist Craig Cobb's case is headed for a plea deal and an
agreement that would preclude a trial on terrorizing Leith residents. The case could
be settled in as few as two weeks.
.

The mayor of Leith says “No deal” for white supremacist Craig Cobb, who’s in jail on seven felony counts of terrorizing town residents during an armed patrol that was part of his plan to take over the tiny community.

However, the state’s attorney says it’s his decision whether to take the plea agreement to the judge.

Mayor Ryan Schock said several of the alleged victims have had a change of heart since agreeing to plea agreement terms Monday that would have given Cobb one felony, a lengthy probation, credit for time served in jail since November and no gun ownership.

The meeting was held after a brief court hearing in Grant County, where the judge gave Cobb’s attorney and Grant County State's Attorney Todd Schwarz three more weeks to settle out of court.

Schock said after sleeping on it, victims he's talked to and area residents want a jury trial and justice for what they feel Cobb put Leith through by moving in and trying to turn Leith into a neo-Nazi community for himself and his followers.

"People want to see (Cobb) serve some time for what he’s done wrong and I can’t blame them. There needs to be more than a get-out-of-jail-free card,” Schock said.

Schwarz said he thought the tentative plea agreement terms were fair, especially because Cobb is shedding his property in Leith, starting with his house that was officially deeded over by sale to a Carson resident Monday.

He said Cobb admits to wrongdoing and inappropriate actions in Leith.

“He has backed off on his intentions to take over Leith and run people out. He has deeded over his home and is ready to deed the rest of it (his Leith property) over,” Schwarz said

“This is a complete change from what we discussed Monday. All we were still working out was the specifics on the terms of probation,” Schwarz said.

He said he’ll poll the victims again to find out if they have new information, or why they’re thinking differently 24 hours later. Schwarz said he can take a plea agreement to the judge, even if the victims and community disagree with it.

Schock said people he’s talked to feel they'd rather take their chances with a jury than settle.

“The community ain’t rolling over on this deal. We want a trial,” Schock said.

Reach reporter Lauren Donovan at 701-220-5511 or lauren@westriv.com.

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Couple worried Underwood next for white supremacists

Couple worried Underwood next for white supremacists


By Lauren Donovan
February 13, 2014 1:57 pm

http://bismarcktribune.com/news/stat...9bb2963f4.html
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0183#post10183

Residents of Underwood are worried about plans by Craig Cobb followers Kynan Dutton
and Deborah Henderson to buy this small house, where they now live.
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McLean County Sheriff Don Charging said he will meet with Underwood officials and residents to talk about two white supremacists from Leith who are trying to buy property a block off Main Street in Underwood with money raised by other white supremacists.

Kynan Dutton and Deborah Henderson, associates of jailed neo-Nazi Craig Cobb, apparently are buying a small house in Underwood with help from the Pioneer Little Europe movement, an experiment in communities populated by people of white European descent.

Posts on a Pioneer Little Europe website thread ask for donations for “DH and her three children” for “a target home … which meets (our) beach heading in North Dakota for future settlers.”

The poster, Atlee Yarrow, a white supremacist from Florida and former failed gubernatorial candidate, says, “The faster PLE supporters can help pay this off, the faster PLE supporters can target the next home to buy or build.” He said he would make an exception and take cash in this case.

Yarrow’s posts were dated as recently as late January, shortly after Dutton got out of jail.

Dutton was arrested along with Cobb on seven charges of terrorizing Leith residents after the two carried long-barreled guns around the tiny town and confronted residents. He was released on a plea deal four weeks ago and moved to Underwood, where Henderson and her three children went after leaving Leith. Cobb remains in jail.

Charging said he will be in Underwood on March 4 to answer any law enforcement questions and has invited McLean County State’s Attorney Ladd Erickson in case there are legal ones.

Underwood City Auditor Diane Schell said she contacted the sheriff after hearing from a citizen about the couple.

Charging said his office hasn’t had any complaints or problems with the pair since they have been in Underwood, first in an apartment and now in the house they plan to buy.

Lisa and Jamie Auck of Underwood say they have personal concerns about the situation, partly because a family member owns the house that Dutton and Henderson are renting with plans to buy.

Jamie Auck said he thinks Dutton and Henderson are “quietly trying to do what they did in Leith. I just don’t feel they’re being honest.”

The family member who owns the property refused an interview.

Neither Dutton nor Henderson returned messages left by the Tribune. Nor did Yarrow.

Lisa Auck said she feels the community should know the connections of Henderson, Dutton and the idea of a “beach head” in Underwood. “I feel like we have to stand for what’s right, even if we have to stand alone,” she said.

Jamie Auck said, “Our goal is not to chase them away; our goal is the truth. If they’re (Henderson and Dutton) really changing their ways, why are there links and fundraising on websites that are hurtful to people and don’t represent our values?”

The post said the couple need $3,000 to make the down payment for the house and then pay $1,000 a month for four years.

Yarrow supplies a Jacksonsville, Fla., post office box for donations.

Reach reporter Lauren Donovan at 701-220-5511 or lauren@westriv.com.
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ND prosecutor in white supremacist's terrorizing case says alleged victim creating 'difficulties'

ND prosecutor in white supremacist's terrorizing case says alleged victim creating 'difficulties'

By: Mike Nowatzki, Forum News Service, INFORUM
Published February 17, 2014, 09:38 PM

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http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0208#post10208

BISMARCK – The prosecutor trying to negotiate a plea agreement with white supremacist Craig Cobb said Monday that one of the people Cobb allegedly terrorized in Leith is hampering the process by spreading misinformation.

Grant County State’s Attorney Todd Schwarz said alleged victim Gregory Bruce, who runs Leith’s unofficial website, has made statements that “have created some difficulties that need to be addressed before we can move forward.”

“I think his behavior is unprofessional and I think it’s very unnecessary,” Schwarz said. “To a certain degree, he’s being childish … and as a result there are a number of people who are misinformed ... creating much more of a storm than it needs to be.”

Bruce did not return multiple messages left on his cell phone Monday seeking comment.

Cobb, 62, has pleaded not guilty to seven felony charges accusing him of terrorizing Leith residents in mid-November. Some of the incidents occurred as Cobb and 29-year-old Kynan Dutton conducted an armed patrol of property that Cobb had bought in Leith with hopes of taking over the town government and creating an all-white community.

Dutton faced the same charges as Cobb but reached a plea agreement that resulted in his release Jan. 25 with time served and two years of supervised probation. The deal also requires him to testify in Cobb’s case.

In an editorial posted last weekend to the www.leithnd.com website and the Facebook page “Leith Nation for Justice,” Bruce wrote that he had learned through a “reliable source” that Dutton may not testify against Cobb.

Dutton, now living in Underwood, said in a phone interview Monday that he plans to honor his plea agreement. He also noted that it doesn’t require him to testify against Cobb, but rather to give truthful testimony.

“Frankly, if they let me testify, I probably will have a great part in setting Craig free, because the truth will come out and he will be exonerated from all charges because they’re bunk in the first place,” he said.

During Cobb’s most recent court hearing on Feb. 10, the judge gave attorneys a three-week extension to try to reach a plea agreement. Immediately afterward, Schwarz met with some of the seven alleged victims to discuss possible terms of a plea deal.

Bruce said in an interview after the meeting that he would agree with “pretty much anything that Schwarz comes up with,” but that the victims left the meeting thinking Cobb “needs to do some time.”

Bruce, who lives in Elgin about 12 miles northwest of Leith, said later in the week that after discussing it later, he and four other victims agreed Cobb should stand trial.

But Schwarz said Monday he has since spoken to at least five victims who said otherwise.

“Every one of them (is) perfectly willing to go to trial. But every one of them (is) perfectly willing to reach a plea agreement that accomplishes the appropriate goals,” he said.

Schwarz said if a plea deal is reached, the conditions will include that Cobb must serve supervised probation and can never legally own a gun again.

Schwarz said alleged victim Lee Cook, a Leith City Council member, hasn’t returned his phone calls. But Cook said Monday in a phone interview that Schwarz hasn’t called him or returned his calls. He also said he and Leith Mayor Ryan Schock are in frequent contact with Bruce and have input into what gets posted on the website.

“We’re very pissed about this plea deal,” Cook said.

Cook said his acceptance of a plea agreement would depend on how much longer it would require Cobb to serve in jail, saying six months wouldn’t be enough.

“He hasn’t served as much time as he’s put our lives through hell,” Cook said.

Meanwhile, Dutton said an article last week in the Bismarck Tribune reporting that he and girlfriend Deborah Henderson were planning to buy the house they’re renting in Underwood with help from a white separatist movement was “a complete article of absolute falsehoods based on rumor.”

The article cited posts on a Pioneer Little Europe website thread seeking donations for “DH and her three children” for “a target home … which meets (our) beach heading in North Dakota for future settlers.”

Atlee Yarrow, in a blog post Monday on www.pioneerlittleeurope.com, called the article speculation based on an outdated thread “which was talking about a completely different part of the state.”

Henderson said she “knew nothing about” any effort by Pioneer Little Europe to help them buy a house.

“We have no intent of starting a PLE in any fashion. We just want to be left alone in Underwood,” Dutton said.

Henderson said she lost her job at a gas station in Washburn on Friday because of the article. A manager at the station had no comment.

Dutton said he is looking for a job, “but given my notoriety, it’s very hard to become employed.”

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Schwarz moves to dismiss one charge in Cobb case

Schwarz moves to dismiss one charge in Cobb case

by Lauren Donovan
lauren.donovan@bismarcktribune.com
February 20, 2014


http://bismarcktribune.com/news/loca...a4bcf887a.html
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0221#post10221

An undated photo of Leith website developer Gregory Bruce -- a
real piece of whigger-shit from outside Grant County wanting a
Racial Civil War, unaware and uncaring of the fact that criminals
like it won't survive this War.
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BISMARCK, N.D. — Grant County State's Attorney Todd Schwarz said he's asking a judge to dismiss one of the seven charges against Craig Cobb, a white supremacist who's jailed for terrorizing residents of Leith during an armed patrol.

The count involves Gregory Bruce of New Leipzig, who's managing a Leith website and who was in Leith at the time of the patrol in mid-November. Cobb and follower Kynan Dutton, both carrying long-barreled guns, approached Bruce and Leith councilman Lee Cook when the two men were outside Cook's house.

Schwarz's motion said Bruce told Schwarz and a Grant County sheriff's deputy sometime after Cobb's Feb. 10 pretrial conference "that he had no fear that Mr. Cobb was going to cause him any injury," which was contrary to previous statements.

"In his original statements, Mr. Bruce indicated that terrorizing was the appropriate charge, however upon further review at this stage of the case, it is clear that Mr. Bruce lacked the requisite candor, trustworthiness and credibility for this count to be continued any further, requiring the state, under the rules of professional conduct, to request the court's order dismissing Count 2 with prejudice," Schwarz wrote.

The felony count for terrorizing Cook remains intact, as do charges involving five other residents. Each count is a Class C felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.

Bruce said Schwarz has not talked to him about dropping the charge, and said he presumes Schwarz is doing so because of Bruce's critical comments on a leithnd.com website and because in his written statement, he said he didn't feel any fear when approached by the armed men.

Schwarz has proposed a plea agreement that would reduce all the charges to one felony, release Cobb for time served in county jail on an extended probation and prevent him from owning guns. A court judge gave Schwarz and Cobb's attorney Ryan Heintz until the end of February to negotiate the agreement.

A three-day jury trial in the case is scheduled to begin July 15.

Leith Mayor Ryan Schock and Cook, as well as Bruce, have openly opposed a plea agreement and want Schwarz to proceed to trial.

Dutton was released on a plea agreement that stipulated he would testify in Cobb's case. He has since moved to Underwood.

Reach reporter Lauren Donovan at 701-220-5511 or lauren@westriv.com.

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Plea deal for Cobb: Probation, no firearms

Plea deal for Cobb: Probation, no firearms

By: Mike Nowatzki, Forum News Service, INFORUM
Published February 26, 2014, 10:37 PM

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http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0255#post10255

Craig Cobb when first arrested Nov. 16, 2013
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BISMARCK - Grant County State’s Attorney Todd Schwarz said a plea agreement has been reached with white supremacist Craig Cobb, who is accused of terrorizing residents in the small town of Leith.

A change of plea hearing is set for 3 p.m. Thursday in Burleigh County before Judge David Reich, who must approve the agreement.

Schwarz said the deal calls for Cobb to plead guilty to one of the six felony terrorizing charges he faces. The other five terrorizing charges would be reduced to Class A misdemeanor menacing charges.

Under the recommended sentence, Cobb, who has been in jail since Nov. 16, would not serve any additional jail time.

He would be required to serve four years of supervised probation, with strict conditions.

Schwarz wouldn’t elaborate on the details of the conditions, but said Cobb would not be able to own a firearm again. He said Cobb has indicated he will not return to Grant County and is expected to divest his property holdings there.

“It's my understanding that he's executed deeds and he'll be filing them afterward,” Schwarz said. “He won't be coming to Grant County.”

Schwarz said Cobb will not be allowed to move in with co-defendant Kynan Dutton in Underwood, as some residents there had feared. Dutton had previously pleaded guilty in the terrorizing case. The terms of Dutton’s probation do not allow him to associate with known felons.

Dutton had joined Cobb to live in Leith as part of Cobb’s plan to make it a haven for white supremacists and take over the town’s government.

They were accused of terrorizing residents of the town while conducting an armed patrol in November.

Schwarz said he expects Cobb to seek an interstate compact that would allow him to serve his probation in another state.

Schwarz described the agreement as “not a perfect resolution,” but said it’s acceptable to a majority of the alleged victims and “inside the realm of fair under all of the circumstances and the latest developments.”

"It's not everything that I want. It’s not quite as severe as I think would be appropriate. But in the overall picture of things with recent developments, it’s acceptable,” he said. “It'll be good for the victims, it'll be good for the town, it'll be good for the county.”

Leith Mayor Ryan Schock said the plea agreement is disappointing to him “and a lot of people,” adding, “Everybody’s been pushing for the trial and to sentence him to as much time as he can possibly get."

Schock said he doesn’t think Cobb will return to Leith, but he said until Cobb’s property is in the hands of the city or someone he trusts, “I don’t trust the situation.”

He said he’s concerned Cobb will try to do what he did in Leith elsewhere.

"It's not like the city of Leith is passing the buck to another town, but it's like we could have stopped it here, and now they're just letting him out,” he said.

Lee Cook, a Leith City Council member and, according to Schwarz, the only one of Cobb’s alleged victims to demand he go to trial, said he doesn’t believe Schwarz ever planned to take Cobb to trial and that the plea deal was no surprise.

“Justice has failed here,” Cook said.

Dutton pleaded guilty last month to reduced charges of menacing and disorderly conduct. His plea agreement required him to testify in Cobb’s case, and Schwarz said he believes that condition played a role in Cobb’s desire for a plea agreement.

“This plea agreement originated from an offer put forward by Mr. Cobb through his attorney, and that took place shortly after Mr. Dutton entered into his plea agreement,” he said.

Dutton wasn’t going to give damning testimony about Cobb “so much as he was going to tell me and a jury what misinformation Cobb was telling Dutton to get him to go along with the inappropriate actions,” Schwarz said. Dutton told Forum News Service last week that he believed his testimony would help set Cobb free, calling the charges “bunk.”

Last week, a judge granted Schwarz’s request to drop the felony terrorizing charge against Cobb related to alleged victim Gregory Bruce, a New Leipzig resident who operates an unofficial website for Leith and has been critical of Schwarz’s handling of Cobb’s case. Schwarz, who claimed Bruce made a comment about not being afraid of Cobb that contradicted his earlier statements, said Wednesday that Bruce “severely damaged the state’s case.”

“Prior to Mr. Bruce breaking his promise to refrain from unnecessary comment, we went from an 80 to 85 percent chance of a conviction to something much less,” Schwarz said.

“Mr. Bruce brought into suspect not just his circumstances but by inference tried to make the rest of these folks look like him,” he said.

"Mr. Bruce wants to preach tolerance, but all he wants is tolerance of his ideas and everything else must be ignored,” Schwarz said. “And in that, he shares something with Mr. Cobb.”

Asked to respond, Bruce said by phone, “Mr. Schwarz, you ain’t seen nothing yet.”

Bruce said he believes the recommended sentence for Cobb is too light.

“He should have been able to sit before a jury of peers and held accountable for what he did,” he said.

Bruce, noting Schwarz is running for a district judgeship, said “he wanted to sweep it under the rug so he could start his campaign.” Bruce said he plans to campaign for Schwarz’s opposition in the race.

[Librarian]

White supremacist Cobb pleads guilty, awaits sentencing

White supremacist Cobb pleads guilty, awaits sentencing

By: Mike Nowatzki, Forum News Service, INFORUM
Published February 27, 2014, 05:30 PM


http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/427817/
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0263#post10263

CornCobb being led into slaughter before the jewdge by local piglice:
Craig Cobb is led into a Burleigh County courtroom by Grant County Sheriff Steve Bay
and other law enforcement officials for a hearing in Bismarck on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014.


BISMARCK - White supremacist Craig Cobb pleaded guilty to charges of terrorizing and menacing Thursday, but the judge in the case wants more information before handing down a sentence.

“I apologize for my behavior and I regret my actions,” a soft-spoken Cobb said before Judge David Reich in Burleigh County District Court.

Cobb, 62, was originally charged with seven felony counts of terrorizing for his alleged actions while leading an armed patrol in November in Leith, the small town southwest of Bismarck where he bought up property with the intention of creating an all-white enclave.

Cobb and his attorney had reached a plea deal with Grant County State’s Attorney Todd Schwarz, agreeing to plead guilty to one count of felony terrorizing and five misdemeanor counts of menacing. One other terrorizing count was dropped last week at Schwarz’s request.

Under the recommended sentence for the guilty pleas, Cobb, who has been in jail since Nov. 16, would not serve any additional jail time. He would be on supervised probation for four years with several conditions.

But Reich did not issue a sentence Thursday, instead ordering a pre-sentence investigation, including a psychological evaluation.

Reich said he didn’t know the extent of Cobb’s criminal record other than what media have reported -- Cobb is wanted on a hate-crime charge in Canada -- and didn’t have the results of Cobb’s previous psychological evaluation. He also noted that five of the felony charges involved firearms.

“The court just doesn’t feel that comfortable issuing a sentence,” he said.

Cobb, appearing clean-shaven in blue jeans and a white shirt with the sleeves pulled up, will remain jailed at the Mercer County Jail in Stanton on $100,000 bond until the sentencing. Reich said he will ask that the presentence investigation be expedited so the court can “conclude this matter as soon as we can.”

Schwarz said Cobb would be prohibited from possessing firearms while on probation and for the rest of his life under federal law, and his long guns used in the alleged terrorizing incidents would be surrendered to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.

Cobb also would have to refrain from alcohol and have no contact with the victims while on probation, including indirect contact via the Internet. The probation office also could use GPS or other means to track him, Schwarz said.

While it wasn’t part of the plea agreement, Schwarz said he and the victims took into account that Cobb has deeded his home in Leith to a disinterested third party and that he plans to deed his remaining lots there to the city or a third party.

Cobb’s court-appointed attorney, Ryan Heintz, said Cobb “knows there are better and more civil ways to go about disagreements between individuals.”

Schwarz told the judge that four of Cobb’s alleged victims were “100 percent” in favor of the plea agreement, one victim found it acceptable but wanted to see stiffer penalties and the other victim was adamantly opposed to the deal.

“This is a way for the folks of Leith and the citizens of Grant County to move on,” he said.

Three of the alleged victims -- Bethany Haberstroh, her 21-year-old daughter, Akriti Haberstroh, and Leith City Councilman Lee Cook -- were in the courtroom Thursday.
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Akriti Haberstroh, unruly dothead mamzeress, allegedly run over CornCobb's dog,
sending the delusional jewboy out on an "armed patrol" on November 16, 2013.
This mamzeress, a typpycully ugly product of miscegenation by some whigger or
anglo-mestizo diversity-sausage seeking skank, claimed that she and her
grendel-mother were "terrorized" by CornCobb waving a cane at them
after they run over his dog.
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Bethany Haberstroh said before the hearing that she was concerned that the actions of Gregory Bruce -- the outspoken New Leipzig resident who runs Leith’s unofficial website and previously was one of Cobb’s alleged victim until Schwarz dropped the terrorizing charge related to him -- had hurt the state’s chances of convicting Cobb, and that a jury trial would turn into a “carnival.”

“And I’m not willing to risk protection of my daughter if (Cobb) would go free,” she said.

After the hearing, Cook was livid that Schwarz failed to mention him as being there when the judge asked if there would be any victim impact statements. Cook said Schwarz has refused to talk to him and that the plea deal was too lenient on Cobb.

“All he’s going to do is go to another community and start over with somebody else,” Cook said

[Librarian]

Jailed white supremacist changes plea

Jailed white supremacist changes plea
Now CornCobb is a "White Supremacist" because this lying bitch ain't expecting another interview!!!

By Lauren Donovan
February 27, 2014 3:30 pm

http://bismarcktribune.com/news/loca...9bb2963f4.html
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0268#post10268

About to get fucked & he knows it: The CornCobb & Itz Legal-Weasel
Craig Cobb, right, sits next to his attorney, Ryan Heintz, at his change
of plea hearing inside the Burleigh County Courthouse in Bismarck.
Thursday. 2-27-2014
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White supremacist Craig Cobb’s bags were packed and he said he was sorry, but he won’t leave jail as expected Thursday because the judge wants more information before letting him go.

Cobb, 62, who’s been jailed on charges of terrorizing Leith citizens during a neo-Nazi-style takeover of the community, dressed in jeans and a white T-shirt for what he and many others thought would be his first day of freedom since being arrested Nov. 16.

Instead of accepting a plea agreement, South Central District Judge David Reich ordered a presentence investigation and deferred the matter until he gets that report. He said he wants to know more about the hate crimes charge that Cobb fled in Canada and the terrorizing incident.

That report could take weeks, up to another month, so Cobb was escorted from the Burleigh County Courthouse back to the Stanton jail, where he’d optimistically packed up and signed out earlier in the day.

A Leith city councilman and victim in the original terrorizing charges, Lee Cook, said he was extremely pleased to see Cobb go back to jail instead of being let go.

Cook and Leith Mayor Ryan Schock say there should be no deal for Cobb and are holding out for a jury trial.

“Let me tell you, he’s sorry about nothing. He’s a master of manipulation,” Cook said afterward.

Cook was among Leith residents confronted by Cobb and follower Kynan Dutton while the two were on an armed patrol of Leith. Cobb’s intentions to use Leith as a place for other white supremacists by buying property and ultimately getting enough votes to take charge of the government were revealed by the Tribune in August.

While in a courtroom crowded with cameras and three of his Leith victims, Cobb pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor menacing charges and one felony, in exchange for a one-year suspended sentence and four years of supervised probation.

Cobb has said he’ll leave North Dakota when he’s released from jail, but he’ll need another state to supervise his probation before he can do that.

He can’t move in with Dutton and Deborah Henderson in Underwood because Dutton can’t “consort” with a known felon, as part of his plea agreement to leave jail last month.

Cobb has deeded his house in Leith to James Kenneth Zimmerman of Carson and apparently plans to deed his remaining nine or so lots back to the city or other third parties.

Cobb deeded one of his lots to notorious Ku Klux Klan grand dragon Tom Metzger, who emailed the Tribune after the hearing to say he was wrong to support Cobb if he would plead guilty to a non-crime. "The presences in North Dakota will continue as before _ covertly," Metzger said.

Grant County State’s attorney Todd Schwarz assured two of Cobb’s victims, Bethany Haberstroh and her daughter, Akrita, that Cobb would remain in custody during the investigation and that the judge’s delay while unanticipated was routine.

Schwarz said he retained the felony in Akrita Haberstroh’s case because the young girl truly felt terrorized by Cobb’s behavior, though no gun was involved.

He had earlier dropped one terrorizing charge involving Gregory Bruce of New Leipzig, saying Bruce misrepresented whether he felt terrorized by Cobb and because Bruce flashed a roll of $20 bills that were payment for helping a media outlet on a video production on the Leith-Cobb story. He said Bruce’s lack of credibility would undermine any case.

Bruce has said he donated the money to the Leith Legal Defense Fund and that Schwarz really believes he’s undermining his case by expressing his opinions about the matter on the Leith website.

Schwarz said he had hoped the matter would end Thursday. “We did want to expedite this. The people of Grant County want this done. There are a few who do not, but most think closing this chapter is a good thing,” Schwarz said.
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[Anchorage Activist]

Craig Cobb Gets Supervised Probation, Will Retire From White Racial Activism And Move To Missouri To Care For His Mother

Craig Cobb Gets Supervised Probation, Will Retire From White Racial Activism And Move To Missouri To Care For His Mother


http://whitereference.blogspot.com/2...probation.html
http://stumbleinn.net/forum/showthre...200#post411200
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...0646#post10646
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0646#post10646

The New (& Improved) Craig "Corn" Cobb
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From the Associated Press and the Bismarck Tribune and KFYR Channel 5, we learn that on April 29th, 2014, Craig Cobb's immediate future has been settled. Judge David Reich accepted a guilty plea on five misdemeanor menacing counts and one felony terrorizing charge, and sentenced Cobb to four years supervised probation but no additional prison time beyond the 167 days served since November. Among the 26 conditions of probation imposed upon Cobb include orders that he must stay 500 yards from Leith, N.D., have no contact with his victims, do not own or possess any firearms, consume no alcohol, procure gainful employment, cannot use surveillance equipment, and must submit to search of his person, possessions, or domicile upon demand. Cobb will be wearing a global positioning system monitor.

Cobb initially was charged with five felonies and faced a maximum of 30 years in prison.

Before sentencing, Cobb told the court "I regret my actions. I know I was wrong and I accept responsibility for my actions. It was an unfortunate confluence of circumstances and bad decisions on my part". He plans to retire from white nationalism, and will seek permission to transfer his probation to Missouri to care for his mother. Cobb has since sold his house and deeded eight other properties in Leith back to the city. However, Leith Mayor Ryan Schock is unhappy with the plea deal because three properties are still owned by white nationalist sources, to include the National Socialist Movement, Tom Metzger, and Alex Linder.

Background: You can read this VNN Forum thread for details. In summary, inspired in part by the successful Pioneer Little Europe (PLE) communities in Kalispell, MT and La Crescenta, CA, Craig Cobb decided to replicate the PLE experiment in North Dakota to take advantage of the proximity of the high-paying jobs of the Bakken oil fields. He chose Leith as his proposed PLE community, and had speculated on the possibility of eventually renaming it "Cobbsville". However, the SPLC caught wind of the project and outed him in August 2013. Cobb decided to fight fire with fire and go on the offensive; he invited others to join him in Leith. He also reportedly had a couple of verbal confrontations with the only black resident in Leith. Because Cobb had received threats, he started patrolling while carrying a gun. This is what got him into trouble and triggered his arrest. Great strategy -- poor tactics. This means "mum" has to be the word on any future PLE projects; if you do it, keep your mouth shut about it and handle it like April Gaede and Scott Ernest have in Kalispell.

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Posted by Anchorage Activist at 3:01 PM Tuesday, April 29, 2014

[Librarian]

North Dakota white supremacist gets probation

North Dakota white supremacist gets probation

By Blake Nicholson
Associated Press
POSTED: 04/29/2014 12:01:00 AM CDT


http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_2...gets-probation
http://christian-identity.net/forum/...0647#post10647
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...0647#post10647

An August 2013 photo shows Craig Cobb in an empty lot he owns on Main Street in Leith, N.D.
The white supremacist had been seeking to take over the small North Dakota town.
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A North Dakota judge sentenced a white supremacist Tuesday to four years of probation but no additional jail time for terrorizing residents of the small community of Leith, where he tried unsuccessfully to establish an all-white enclave and has left behind a legacy of fear.

Craig Cobb, 62, has been jailed since mid-November when he was arrested on seven felony terrorizing counts for scaring residents while patrolling Leith with a gun. He was due to be a free man later Tuesday after going through the jail release process -- a reality that scares officials in Leith.

"Now we've got this lunatic out on the street again," City Councilman Lee Cook said after the sentencing.

Cobb -- who says he is not a violent man -- moved to Leith more than two years ago, bought a house and 12 other lots, and encouraged other white supremacists to join him to create a voting majority in the community of about two dozen residents. In August, he publicized his plans to fill the town with other white supremacists and take over the town government.

Judge David Reich sentenced Cobb to four years supervised probation but no additional prison time beyond the time served since November.

"The majority of the victim impact statements and victims in this case indicated they were in agreement with the plea agreement," Reich said of a deal Cobb had struck with Grant County State's Attorney Todd Schwarz.

Leith Mayor Ryan Schock, who had wanted a 4-year prison term for Cobb, said outside the court that it would take a long time for the town to recover.

"When are we going to be safe from him? He has made his mark on our lives," Schock said.

Cobb said he now plans to seek permission to move to Missouri to care for his mother.

"I regret my actions. I know I was wrong and I accept responsibility for my actions. It was an unfortunate confluence of circumstances and bad decisions on my part," Cobb told the court.

Cobb told The Associated Press earlier this month that he plans to "retire from white nationalism" because he's tired of the spotlight.

Cobb had said earlier that he brandished a gun in Leith in response to violence and harassment directed toward him. He no longer owns any property in Leith, and in late February he pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor menacing counts and one felony terrorizing charge. The original charges against Cobb carried a maximum punishment of 30 years in prison.

The terms of Cobb's probation bar him from having contact with victims, but Cook, one of the victims in the case, said he had been given no information on where Cobb will be going. He and mayor Schock said they worry whether the town will be safe -- especially since Cobb gave three of his Leith lots to white separatist Tom Metzger, National Socialist Movement Commander Jeff Schoep and white supremacist Alex Linder.

"It's a failure of justice," Cook said. "This guy gets off. He made our lives a living hell and now he's walking the streets again."

Schwarz said outside the courtroom that he did not know where Cobb would go, but that Cobb would be monitored by GPS.

"If all of a sudden he gets within 500 yards of Leith, he'll be back in jail," Schwarz said.

Schock, Cook and Leith website operator Greg Bruce earlier this month filed a complaint against Schwarz with the state attorney disciplinary board, alleging the prosecutor has acted unprofessionally and possibly unethically.

Schwarz believes he handled the case properly and said Tuesday that he felt justice had been served. Schock and Cook disputed that. Cook said Cobb and Kynan Dutton -- a Cobb loyalist who also was arrested in the gun incident and earlier received a similar sentence -- "are not Boy Scouts."

"They were out looking for a reason to shoot us," Cook said. "Just like the guy in Kansas City who gunned down a 14-year-old boy -- they're buddies."

Cobb has acknowledged a friendship with Frazier Glenn Cross, who is accused of killing three people at Jewish sites in Kansas earlier this month. Cobb told The Associated Press earlier that he spoke with Cross just three days before the killings but that the allegations against Cross have nothing to do with him.