WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 17, 2017 - Adam Kokesh was arrested by Secret Service outside the White House on an extraditable warrant out of Maryland stemming from an incident with the Amerikan Gestapo Transportation Security Administration division in December 2015. The warrant was for failure to appear. Kokesh says his government-issued ankle bracelet from a previous gun charge was being additionally screened by the TSA, and he remarked, “Don’t worry. It’s probably not a bomb.”
This resulted in the ten minute closure of the checkpoint and a criminal citation for disrupting security procedures.
A January 2016 letter from the TSA indicated that the agency wished to reduce their case to a warning. Kokesh believed this resolved the matter, while the government says the letter only frees him of civil liability. Maryland, meanwhile, is free to pursue the case criminally.
Kokesh was ordered released Saturday after Maryland declined to pick him up for extradition within 72 hours of him waiving his right to an extradition hearing.
To his knowledge, there is still a Maryland warrant out for his arrest.
