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| Mary Whiteside Quillen |
Etowah county sheriffs deputies have arrested a Calhoun
County woman on charges of offering a false instrument for record.
65 year old
Mary Whiteside Quillen, of Weaver, was
arrested after she recorded several frivolous documents, on July 23, against
government officials in a lien. Secretary Jacob J. Lew, U.S. Department of the
Treasury was specifically named in one document. The instruments were recorded
in the office of Etowah County’s probate judge.
Sheriff Todd Entrekin. Said he will not allow this to happen in Etowah
County and will prosecute these individuals to the fullest extent of the law. The
sheriff said that to his knowledge these are the only cases that have been made
in the state under this law.
Recording
false instruments against public officials became a crime with the passage of
House Bill 17 in the 2012 Alabama legislature. The charge is a Class C
Felony.
Quillen is currently being held in
the Etowah County Detention Center on a $100,000 cash bond. This case is
ongoing. Additional charges are possible.
A similar incident took place in June with the arrests of 71 year old
Everett Leon Stout, of St. Clair County, and
66 year old Miriam Clare Shultz,
of Marshall County. Stout and Shultz were
each charged with two counts of offering a false instrument for record. Stout
and Shultz recorded false documents against a circuit clerk, municipal
prosecutor, federal judge and federal probation officer.
The
individuals, who claim to be sovereign
citizens, come into contact with local law enforcement they often are driving
without state-required licenses, either for their vehicles or themselves.
Members of the group also inundate public officials, including local law
enforcement officers, with frivolous liens, false claims and sometimes threats
of violence.
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