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‘Sovereign Citizen’ Shoots at Dallas Cops, Arrested After Standoff

A man who called Dallas police to inform them he was part of the even as he was engaging officers in an armed standoff was eventually arrested after and locking down an upscale North Dallas neighborhood.

According to , the man –– a 60-year-old Corinth resident named Douglas Lee Leguin –– began taking shots at Dallas firefighters on Monday as they arrived near the scene of a reported Dumpster fire in the well-to-do neighborhood. The firefighters were not hit and put out a call for assistance.

In short order, the Dallas SWAT team and a host of police officers descended upon the scene, and the man continued to fire shots. However, no officers were injured in the incident. Eventually, negotiators persuaded the man to surrender.

with seven counts of aggravated assault. According to , he had placed a number of explosive devices around the property where he engaged police in the standoff. Those devices were defused or detonated. Reportedly, the same man had encountered a babysitter in the neighborhood with an 8-year-old girl and had threatened both of them before starting his rampage.

According to , Leguin had called police during the standoff to tell them that he belonged to , which believes that most government institutions are illegitimate, as are the laws they enforce.

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