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Las Vegas authorities may be looking for additional suspects, likely members of the antigovernment movement, after the arrest this week of a couple allegedly planning to kidnap, jail, torture and kill police officers.

Convicted sex offender David Allen Brutsche, 42, and a woman described as his roommate, 67-year-old Devon Campbell Newman, are in the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas on charges of conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder and attempted kidnapping.

Police describe both as being 鈥渟overeign citizens".

鈥淏lood or no blood 鈥� it doesn鈥檛 matter,鈥� Brutsche told an undercover officer in July, according to the arrest report, the reported Thursday. 鈥淚 will kill anyone that tries to stop the cause of liberty,鈥� Brutsche is quoted as saying in the police reports, adding, 聽鈥淚 have no qualms about it.鈥�

Las Vegas Police Lt. Jim Seebock said 鈥渕ore people could face charges,鈥� but he declined to elaborate because the investigation is ongoing, the reported.

Police said Brutsche, a six-time convicted felon and registered sex offender in California, was 鈥渃ommitted to鈥� the sovereign citizen movement,

The arrests came after a four-month investigation during which the couple 鈥渉osted a sovereign citizen ideology class where they attempted to recruit members,鈥欌�� according to the arrest report, the Review-Journal newspaper reported. Unbeknownst to the suspects, those attending the indoctrination class included undercover detectives who posed as sympathizers and ultimately had more than 30 meetings with the couple, recording hundreds of hours of conversations detailing the plot, according to the police report.

The arrests were made after the couple, given access to an unoccupied house by one of the undercover detectives, took the plot to the next step earlier this month by starting to build a crude jail cell in the house just a few blocks off the Las Vegas Strip. Police said they planned to randomly encounter an officer during a traffic stop, abduct him or her at gunpoint, and take the officer to the house. There, they intended to conduct a bogus 鈥渃ommon law鈥� court trial before executing the officer, using acid and plastic bags to dispose of the body.

The couple discussed following patrol cars and making video recordings. The report said if an officer attempted to make an arrest, the sovereign citizens would 鈥渒ill the cop鈥� if necessary, the report said. Newman reportedly told one undercover detective she would create a code-word list if they thought their telephones were tapped by government investigators.

Police said the couple hoped the publicity from their first abduction and execution would build toward more kidnappings and killings of officers.

Sovereign citizens are known for their frequent run-ins with police, often because they have invalid driver鈥檚 licenses or vehicle registrations 鈥� or just simply believe the government has no control over them.

Seven law enforcement officers in the United States have been killed since 2000 by sovereign citizens, and police contact with the anti-government extremists seems to be increasing.

In May 2010, two West Memphis, Ark., , during a traffic stop. Both were killed in a subsequent shoot-out that left two more officers badly wounded.

鈥淭his latest plot shows that sovereign citizens remain a deadly threat to law enforcement officers across the country,鈥� said former West Memphis Police Chief Bob Paudert, whose son was one of the two officers killed by the Kanes. 鈥淎ll officers need to be aware of this threat and know how to recognize the signs that they are dealing with a sovereign, particularly during traffic stops. That鈥檚 why, shortly after the deaths of my son and his partner, I made an officer training video on this subject with the 澳彩开奖.鈥�

That video, which has been shipped free of charge by the 澳彩开奖 to more than 100,000 law enforcement officers, .

A year ago this month, and the wounding of two others near New Orleans. In March of this year, a sovereign citizen in Navarre, Fla., who was accused of printing his own currency, was following an altercation that began with a traffic stop. In October 2012, in Memphis, Tenn., a after she refused to exit her vehicle during a traffic stop and drove away, hitting two Memphis officers in the process.