HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writer
JACKSON, Miss. – If Ronnie Lee Owen is telling the truth, he can save President Barack Obama from a racist plot and stop an armed revolution by Mormon extremists, if police would just let him out of jail.
Authorities haven’t let him out of jail. Instead, he goes on trial next week in Gulfport, Miss., on federal fraud charges for having three fake driver’s licenses and issuing phony checks.
Owen, a 41-year-old fugitive wanted in eight states, is accused of writing fake checks across the country for thousands of dollars in goods, according to court records.
When he was arrested during a traffic stop in March 2009 in Biloxi, Miss., he and his fiancee had fantastical tales for police and the U.S. Secret Service, according to 101 pages of documents sealed Wednesday by a federal judge in Gulfport. The Associated Press obtained the documents before they were sealed.