Howard Padden was recently arrested recently for criminal impersonation, custodial interference and second-degree kidnapping. And the judge was having none of his “constitutional crap.” The judge told him “save it for somebody else who’s stupid and believes in that.”
Here is a video of the judge talking to Mr. Padden.
According to news reports, he considers himself an “Sovereign American National, not a person or 14th Amendment citizen, state chief justice.”
The kidnapping involves two Russian families and a child in protective custody.
News reports aren’t clear but from what I can gather last September, Danil Bagmen (a Russian man) was arrested for strangling his teenage daughter. He was charged with assault and that child was put in protective custody with another Russian family. Soon thereafter, the child was gone.
The foster parents said that the child’s mother came to their home with a man claiming to be a lawyer. On documents his name was Howard O’Padden but he is in fact Howard Padden. O’Padden presented the foster family with bogus paperwork indicating that the child had to be returned to her parents. The family thought it looked official as it mentioned something about “the 1860’s, kings and queens, dissolution of the United States, etc.”
It also said that if they did not return the child they would be deported “never to return forever” and that “ALl of your assets will be confiscated…Your charade is over. If you return, you could be executed by firing squad for high treason.”
The foster family, not knowing any better, gave the girl over. She was found at her biological parents’ home. Her mother was arrested on interference charges.
Padden had 32 counts pending in the county of intimidating a public servant. He’s accused of threatening a county treasurer because he doesn’t think he needs to pay taxes. He’s also filed liens on properties and sent bogus paperwork to the governor, and much more.
In court before the judge, he referred to himself as “Hadden Padden Trust” who was “appearing as a living man.”
You can learn more about the case here.