Meet the Texas family staging a 12-year standoff with the law on a 47-acre compound with no electricity, running water or phone.
For 12 years running, a Texan named John Joe Gray has been in America’s longest standoff with law enforcement.
In 2000, the wanted, anti-government militant and his family barricaded themselves in a 47-acre parcel outside Trinidad, population 1,100, and told the cops to “bring body bags” if they tried to enter his property.
Wary of provoking another Waco-like shootout, Henderson County’s then-sheriff, Howard “Slick” Alfred, listened. Instead of sending deputies to seize Gray, he decided to wait them out.
More than a decade later, Alfred has retired, as have two of his successors — and Gray has still not left the property.
(via ruralworkshop)
