Ron Paul supporter Jason Shelton arrested, again! - Updated

By: D. H. Williams @ 9:49 AM - EST

Editors Note: This post will be updated as new information is made available.

Around 6:00 PM in Phoenix, Arizona Ron Paul supporter and Constitutional activist Jason Shelton was arrested for a second time in as many weeks for protesting private companies owned by foreign interest spying on American citizens.

It all began around 4:45 PM local time when 30 people gathered to protest the use of photo radar enforcement vans at the intersection of Scottsdale and Shea Blvd. Lawful protesters were holding signs and passing out pamphlets to passersby. Motorist in the area showed their support by waving their arms and beeping car horns, but the occupants of two GMC vans were not amused. In fact they were covertly surveilling the group with video cameras, gathering intel for secret files I suppose.

The undaunted Jason Shelton walked up to the unmarked vans with his camera and began to film the vehicles, occupants and the license plate numbers, soon several other protesters with cameras approached the vans and began to film also. Basically everyone was having fun filming everyone else and the mood was light.

However within just a couple of minutes four vehicles with seven men quickly appeared on the scene only one individual could be identified as an actual Scottsdale Police Officer. The others wore street clothes driving unmarked cars, the individuals in street clothes refused to identify themselves as law enforcement officers nor did they provide a badge or badge number when asked.

These secret police who work for who knows took Jason Shelton, videographer and reporter for Freedom’s Phoenix into custody erasing the video on his camera  and charged him with theft. What he stole is up to speculation, my theory is he was arrested for stealing the souls of the occupants of the photo radar vans - blood sucking vampires hate to be photographed.

The state of Arizona plans on generating $10 million a month in fines from Arizona citizens with their new toys and Jason Shelton is really putting a wrench in their plans. Now is the time to give some of the money Jason and other activist have saved you in fraudulent fines and help with his defense fund, it will make you feel good :-).

Fund administered by Earnest Hancock at Freedom’s Phoenix.

Related Website(s): Camera Fraud

Video: ABC 15 News Scottsdale covers a story on Camera Fraud .com

Video: Jason Shelton is the familiar voice on the 4409 YouTube videos. He is part of the Ron Paul meetup group which started the “r3VOLution.”

Related Article(s): Activist Jason Shelton arrested for filming protest

Updated: @ 5:48 PM - EST

Jason Shelton arrested for mail fraud concerning a dispute with ebay buyer over car.

Scottsdale Police Press Release:

Date:     9/18/2008 Time:     6:45 PM
Report #:     08-09093
Location:     10600 N. Scottsdale Road
Victim Info:     43 yr old male, Canadian resident
Suspect Data:     Jason William Shelton. DOB 9/11/1972. Scottsdale Resident

Details:

On January 29, 2008, SPD was contacted by an Ebay buyer in Canada regarding an online vehicle purchase where the seller failed to make the vehicle available to the buyer.

The seller, a 43yr old male resident of Ontario, Canada, gave the following account:

On 11-18-2007 he was at his home in Canada looking on EBay for vehicles for sale. He saw a 1988 Pontiac Fiero Enterra for sale priced at US$10,299.99. The item location was listed in Scottsdale. He bid and won the item, agreeing to pay an additional US$2000 for shipping costs. He made contact with the seller, later determined to by Jason Shelton, and an agreement was made to wire the funds to Mr. Shelton’s bank account. The buyer wired the funds to Mr. Shelton’s bank account as instructed. Once the funds were received and verified, the agreement was that Shelton would make the vehicle available for pick-up within two weeks. On 11-19-2008, the buyer received confirmation that Shelton received the funds.

Over the next 9 weeks, the buyer reported numerous attempts to contact Mr. Shelton via phone and email. All attempts were unsuccessful and after 9 weeks, and the car was never delivered or made available to the buyer. He then contacted Scottsdale police to report the theft.

Detectives working this case were able to confirm through bank and computer records that Mr. Shelton received the US$12,300 as a result of the EBay transaction.

On 2-28-2008, the case detective located the 1988 Fiero parked at 4383 N. Parkway, in a parking space assigned to Jason Shelton, in unit #504. Attempts to contact Mr. Shelton were unsuccessful. The car was seized and impounded at SPD as evidence on this day.

On August 27, 2008 Mr. Shelton was arrested for an unrelated crime. Detectives attempted to question Shelton at the SPD jail, but he was not cooperative and they were unable to interview him. [This is a serious crime Shelton is being accused of as any libertarian knows. But this paragraph makes no sense...either they had the goods on Shelton or they did not.  They let him go.]

Since the August 27 contact, detectives in this case developed probable cause for Mr. Shelton’s arrest, however, had been unsuccessful in their attempts to contact/arrest Mr. Shelton.

On 9-18-2008, SPD learned [monitored] of a planned photo enforcement demonstration by a group that Mr. Shelton associated with. Detectives went to the publicized demonstration site (Scottsdale/Shea) to locate and arrest Shelton. Once there, Mr. Shelton was located and arrested without incident at 6:45 PM.

Shelton was booked on a single felony Theft/Fraud charge and held in custody.

Updated: Saturday @ 10:45 AM - EST

Go HERE to watch Local News 3TV coverage of the photo radar protest.

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