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A man who is part of the sovereign citizen movement that has taken hold in parts of the mainland and who has posted on the Internet several YouTube videos of himself challenging the civil and criminal justice systems here and on the mainland is a fugitive from Georgia, according to documents filed in state court for his extradition.
State sheriff deputies arrested Anthony Troy Williams for extradition Friday.
At his extradition hearing Wednesday, Williams, 42, told Circuit Judge Richard Perkins that he is not the person wanted in Fulton County, Ga., for felony child molestation. He said the person listed in the extradition request with his name and his Social Security Number is not him, but a corporate entity.
Williams also told Perkins that he is a private attorney general and wishes to represent himself in the extradition proceeding.
Perkins continued the hearing to this afternoon.
The state Department of the Attorney General, which is handling the extradition request from Georgia, already was investigating Williams for practicing law in Hawaii without a license.
On Friday the attorney general filed a complaint in state court for a preliminary and permanent injunction to stop Williams from continuing to practice law. The complaint claims that Williams, who leases office space in Waterfront Plaza for his Common Law Office of America, and his associates have been pretending to be lawyers in state and federal court on Oahu and Hawaii island since July on behalf of residents facing foreclosure.
The attorney general said Williams and associate Mary Jean Castillo claim to be distressed property consultants and, using the law office’s website at www.usacommonlaw.com, urge people to call them to stop foreclosures.
Williams posted at least one video of him and others, claiming to be private attorneys general, attempting to represent property owners in foreclosure proceedings in state court. He has also posted a video of him and an associate attempting to serve a warrant on a lawyer on Hawaii island.
In a previous video, Williams claims to be a sovereign peace officer in Nashville, Tenn., and is seen wearing a badge and carrying handcuffs and a citation book.
Violent crimes tied to people linked to the sovereign citizen movement since 2010 have prompted the FBI to issue warnings to local law enforcement agencies on the mainland.
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