Craig Cobb Sent to North Dakota State Hospital for Mental Evaluation
Craig Cobb, the racist activist who was working to build an all-white enclave in the tiny town of Leith, N.D., until he was on charges of terrorizing the townsfolk last month, has been sent to a state mental hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, police said.
Cobb鈥檚 hospitalization last week came after he stopped eating as part of what he said was a . According to Sheriff Dean Danzeisen in Mercer County, where Cobb was being held, he was only drinking water. When he was asked if he needed to see a doctor, he agreed to a psychiatric evaluation.
鈥淪o, just like any other prisoner, we took him to the doctor,鈥� Danzeisen told Hatewatch. 鈥淚t wasn鈥檛 like he was drugged or in a straitjacket.鈥�
Cobb stopped eating following his Nov. 16 after the Grant County Sheriff鈥檚 Department received several complaints that he and his roommate, Kynan Dutton, 29, were toting guns and having heated, threatening exchanges with townsfolk.
At the time, Cobb claimed he and Dutton were patrolling the town because of acts of violence against them, though that appears to have been imagined. Pictures depict Cobb in a jean jacket and flip-flops, a rifle resting on his hip, pacing through town. He was charged with seven counts of terrorizing, a Class C felony.
The terrorizing charge came shortly after Cobb returned to Leith from an appearance on NBC鈥檚 where the he submitted to were revealed, showing that he is 14 percent sub-Saharan African.
In response to the criminal charges against him, Cobb has tried to bargain his way out of jail, offering to sell his home, leave North Dakota and abandon his plans to build a racist town if the 鈥� a far cry from the defiance he exuded when his project first became .
鈥淚鈥檒l be glad to get out of the state,鈥� Cobb told the Associated Press last week from the Mercer County Jail in Stanton. 鈥淎nd I鈥檒l never come back to North Dakota.鈥�
