Post by pavel on Jan 15, 2016 20:46:18 GMT -6
TRINIDAD -- A week after a 15-year police standoff formally ended, former fugitive John Joe Gray has not left his backwoods hideout and said he will resist officers again.
“There will be a standoff,” Gray said Thursday, saying he and his family will take up arms if Henderson County officials try to seize the 47-acre ranch over $34,618 in taxes.
Gray, 66 and legally free after learning last week that officials in adjacent Anderson County dropped a 1999 felony assault charge, said he is afraid to leave.
The county sheriff encouraged him to seek donations, Gray said, telling him to start paying by Jan. 31 or “he’d have to do something we both might regret.”
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