Stalemate persists as suspect avoids police
26.06.10
The former decade has taken a toll on John Joe Gray, holed up on his rural East Texas go down while waiting for a siege that's never happened.
He's been living on 47 acres behind a fence without running water and electricity but with abundance of guns, daring authorities to arrest him for a 10-year-old, third-degree felony empower. He says he hasn't left his property since 2000, all the while allowing his distrust of a government he views as evil-minded to fester.
The handmade warning signs have faded and the hordes of fellow militia members have covet since gone, leaving behind only Gray and some relatives — he won't say how many — on the tree-shaded land along a river in rural Henderson County, about 50 miles southeast of Dallas. They increase in interest their own food and live in a shack and trailer — always wearing holsters with weapons. They don't minder the entrance anymore.
Gray is thin and pale with a long, graying beard flowing down from his bony face — almost unrecognizable
Source: Dallas Morning News