Reply #11: I was able to find CNN's original Scott Roeder story in the Wayback Machine. Middle initial "P."

[BuyingThyme]

I'm not yet completely convinced it's the same buy, but for what it's worth:

'Freeman' arrested in Kansas Freeman standoff
Suspect had bomb device, police say

April 17, 1996
Web posted at: 2:30 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- A Kansas man identified by the FBI as a member of the anti-government Freemen group was being held Wednesday on explosives charges as the standoff in Montana entered its 24th day.

Also Wednesday, a detention hearing was scheduled in Billings, Montana, for Freeman Ebert Stanton, 23. He and his mother surrendered last week to authorities.

Bomb trigger
Scott P. Roeder, 38, was arrested Tuesday in Kansas after deputies found what they called a bomb-triggering device in his car. The Silver Lake man was arrested in Topeka and held on charges of criminal use of explosives, driving on a suspended license and failure to carry registration and insurance.

He was stopped because his car didn't have a legitimate license plate. Instead, it had a tag indicating the driver was a "sovereign" citizen and immune from Kansas law. The same type of license plate is sometimes used by the Freemen, whose members in Montana are in a standoff with federal agents.

Roeder's name is on an FBI list of Freemen members, said Sheriff Dave Meneley of Shawnee County, Kansas. In Roeder's trunk, authorities found fuse cord, a one-pound can of gunpowder, ammunition, a blasting cap and two 9-volt batteries, one wired to a switch -- the alleged triggering device.

Stanton charges
The Stantons are charged with conspiracy, mail fraud and bank fraud. They are accused of writing at least $19.5 million in bogus checks and money orders between August 1994 and December 1995.

A U.S. magistrate in Billings ordered Tuesday that Agnes Stanton, 52, continue to be held under house arrest. She will remain free without bail as long as she stays in the custody of a relative in Billings.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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