3 Rise of the Moors members charged in hourslong standoff along I-95 in Wakefield appear in court

 

3 Rise of the Moors members 

charged in hourslong standoff 

along I-95 in Wakefield 

appear in court

 

On Sept. 1, a Middlesex County grand jury indicted a group of eight men associated with the Rise of the Moors in connection with the standoff.  https://www.wcvb.com/article/rise-of-the-moors-members-charged-in-hours-long-standoff-along-interstate-95-in-wakefield-set-to-appear-in-court/37768022#

Three of those men — 31-year-old Steven Perez, a.k.a. "Lucha El Por Libertad," of the Bronx, New York; 29-year-old Aaron Lamont Johnson, a.k.a. Tarriff Sharif Bey, of Detroit; and 27-year-old Aaron J. Jimenez, a.k.a. "Aban El Curraugh," of the Bronx, New York — were arraigned in Woburn Superior Court on Tuesday.

All three men have refused lawyers and are legally representing themselves in court. They made numerous objections from the start of the hearing, including the names listed on the court documents that list the charges they are facing.

The defendants argued that they are not subject to U.S. law since they are descendants of a mythic Moroccan nation that once covered much of the world, including America.