Free State Project activist Mike Barskey arrested

bile — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:20:29 +0000

At approximately 12:50am, on Sunday the 1st of February 2009, Free State Project member Mike Barskey was pulled over by Amherst, New Hampshire police after apparently catching the eye of the arresting officer when passing or being passed by another car. The officer followed Mike for a few minutes and ran his California plates finding that he had bench warrant for his arrest due to not showing up to a court hearing. The officer allowed Mike to drive his car to a nearby business parking lot so it wouldn’t have to be towed and then took Mike to the police station. After looking into the matter more the officers realized Mike has a cash bail of $2000 and that his registration is expired therefore tacking on some amount for that.

Mike refused to have his fingerprints taken and was told that that when he is brought to Valley Street jail in Manchester that they would “take them.” He mentions in his Porc411 messages that he is refusing or planned to refuse to answer some or all of the questions they were asking of him and he wasn’t planning on paying the cash bail.

The last message from Mike came in at 2:42am indicating his car was being towed to his home rather than being impounded.

According to Kat Kanning from on the NHUnderground forum:

Valley St. Jail has the worst reputation in NH. Mike’ll need your calls to the jail to help keep him safe. The website detailing all the abuses there seems to have been taken down. Here’s my article about it:

http://newhampshirefreepress.com/?q=node/242

Here are all the relevant Porc411 calls:

NHUnderground forum from Libertine:

Mike’s being held at the Valley Street Jail. The bail is $2040, and if it’s not posted, he’ll be held there until Monday morning when he’ll be taken to Milford District Court for arraignment.

The phone number for the Valley Street Jail is: (603) 627-5620
The address for Milford District Court is: 180 Elm Street, Milford, NH 03055

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