Stalemate persists as suspect avoids police
27.06.10
GUN BARREL Conurbation, Texas — The past decade has taken a toll on John Joe Gray, holed up on his bucolic East Texas land while waiting for a siege that's never happened.
He's been living on 47 acres behind a ward without running water and electricity but with plenty of guns, daring authorities to arrest him for a 10-year-old, third-position felony warrant. He says he hasn't left his property since 2000, all the while allowing his wary of of a government he views as evil to fester.
The handmade warning signs have faded and the hordes of paramour militia members have long since gone, leaving behind only Gray and some relatives — he won't say how many — on the tree-shaded paraphernalia along a river in rural Henderson County, about 50 miles southeast of Dallas. They evolve their own food and live in a shack and trailer — always wearing holsters with weapons. They don't bodyguard the entrance anymore.
Gray is thin and pale with a long, graying beard flowing down from his spindly face — almost unrecognizable from photos taken in 2000 showing his short, hidden hair and a mustache.
Source: The Associated Press