# Remember the security guy who took down a media guy during the Alaska Senate race? He's disappeared **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036 "2011-03-26T04:50:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/1 "2011-03-26T04:50:24Z")
Remember during the Senate race last fall, there was the episode where a security guy with the Miller campaign handcuffed a reporter who was asking questions? [Detention of reporter: kosher or not?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=582399) The security guy has now disappeared, with rumours that he’s connected to a group of alleged sovereign citizens who are now facing murder and conspiracy charges: [Alaska militia ‘supply sergeant’ vanishes as alleged murder plot unfolds](http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaska-militia-supply-sergeant-vanishes-alleged-murder-plot-unfolds): > [@](#): > > Five days after members of an Interior Alaska militia group were arrested in connection with plots to kill Alaska State Troopers, judges and others, Anchorage businessman William Fulton – a man once identified as the “supply sergeant” for the Alaska Citizens Militia – went missing. He has not been seen since. > > Fulton was the owner of Drop Zone, a military surplus store on Spenard Road. He gained some notoriety during the 2010 U.S. Senate race when, acting as security for failed candidate Joe Miller, he handcuffed and detained Alaska Dispatch editor Tony Hopfinger at a public meeting. > > … > > Now, as more details emerge as to the arrests of six Fairbanks-area militia members, including references in criminal indictments to unnamed militia members who appear to have helped state and federal authorities, some are beginning to wonder whether Fulton is connected to the investigation. Is Alaska politics always this odd? ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/2 "2011-03-26T05:13:40Z")
I don’t know about alaska politics, but this is the weirdest place in the world, mostly in a good way, but still weird. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/3 "2011-03-26T05:46:23Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Remember during the Senate race last fall, there was the episode where a security guy with the Miller campaign handcuffed a reporter who was asking questions? > > [Detention of reporter: kosher or not?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=582399) > > The security guy has now disappeared, with rumours that he’s connected to a group of alleged sovereign citizens who are now facing murder and conspiracy charges: > > [Alaska militia ‘supply sergeant’ vanishes as alleged murder plot unfolds](http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaska-militia-supply-sergeant-vanishes-alleged-murder-plot-unfolds): > > Is Alaska politics always this odd? Yes, sometimes worse. But then what do you expect from a state where the unofficial state motto is “we don’t give a damn how they do it on the outside (lower 48, continental US etc), this is Alaska”? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/4 "2011-03-26T16:17:43Z")
plus, the lawyer who is acting for the disappeared guy is a former Attorney General for Alaska, and he’s hinting in the article that his guy may be in federal witness protection. Very weird: the employee of the missing guy showed up to work, and the lawyer gave him papers handing over the business to the employee. All of which is just a sideshow to the state and federal charges pending against the five sovereign citizen types. This one may be worth watching… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/5 "2011-03-26T16:26:31Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Remember during the Senate race last fall, there was the episode where a security guy with the Miller campaign handcuffed a reporter who was asking questions? > > [Detention of reporter: kosher or not?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=582399) > > The security guy has now disappeared, with rumours that he’s connected to a group of alleged sovereign citizens who are now facing murder and conspiracy charges: > > [Alaska militia ‘supply sergeant’ vanishes as alleged murder plot unfolds](http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaska-militia-supply-sergeant-vanishes-alleged-murder-plot-unfolds): > > Is Alaska politics always this odd? Absolutely. Especially since the state went right about 30 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/6 "2011-03-26T19:41:29Z")
Note that WAR, that ‘atty general’ (was one for about a week, got thrown out), is a hell of a weird story in and of himself. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/7 "2011-03-27T00:49:20Z")
According to his wikipedia stub, he was never confirmed. It’s difficult for me to see why anyone was characterizing him as a former attorney general. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/8 "2011-03-27T01:03:11Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > According to his wikipedia stub, he was never confirmed. It’s difficult for me to see why anyone was characterizing him as a former attorney general. He was a Palin nominee, and had the same sort of ideas she had about abortion and gays. The legislative committee couldn’t get a straight answer from him, so passed on the nomination. Palin had already nominated one person who had been rejected because he was a whack job. After Ross was rejected, she _re-nominated_ the first guy. This pretty much tells you all you need to know about her. A fun fact: Wayne Anthony Ross drives a huge red Hummer pickup with the license plate WAR. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/9 "2011-03-27T01:24:26Z")
Thank you, right, wasn’t actually confirmed. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/10 "2011-03-27T02:31:08Z")
Actually, I wasn’t looking at you so much, **E-Sabbath** , as the writer of the linked story: > [@Alaska Dispatch](#): > > “You’re not just off on a folly of your own here,” said Ross, a well-known defense attorney **and Alaska’s attorney general for the briefest of periods.** ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2011, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-security-guy-who-took-down-a-media-guy-during-the-alaska-senate-race-hes-disappeared/576036/11 "2011-03-30T04:46:11Z")
Increasing speculation that the guy who disappeared is an informant for the FBI: [2 informants helped FBI make case against Fairbanks militia members](http://www.adn.com/2011/03/28/1779433/2-informants-helped-fbi-make-case.html) > [@](#): > > Two people working undercover for the FBI recorded conversations with Fairbanks militia members that helped lead to their arrests on charges of planning to murder a federal judge and law enforcment officers, according to court documents released Friday. The description of one of the informants as a potential arms supplier may be a reference to William Fulton, the former owner of the Spenard military surplus shop Drop Zone who hasn’t been seen since five days after the arrests, reports Alaska Dispatch. > > … > > The other is a person with no criminal record but in the affidavit is said to be someone who the defendants approached to buy grenades, silencers and other weapons because he was thought to “be in a position to produce possible weaponry.” Some in the militia community have speculated that the weapons supplier might be William Fulton, former owner of the Drop Zone military surplus store on Spenard Road. He abruptly signed over his store to an employee and disappeared a few days after the Fairbanks arrests. Nothing in the affidavit gives any information about Fulton, whether he may be connected to the case, or why he might have vanished.