Crime & Safety
Pro-Gun Activist Adam Kokesh Granted $5,000 Bond
However, the bond comes with certain stipulations friends of Kokesh's don't think he'll put up with.
According to multiple reports, anti-government, pro-gun activist Adam Kokesh, who was arrested after a search of his Herndon home last week, has been granted $5,000 bond by a Fairfax County judge.
U.S. Parks officers, with the assistance of the Town of Herndon Police Department, executed a search warrant on Kokesh's home on Snowflake Court last Tuesday night, July 9, after seeing a July 4th YouTube video of Kokesh appearing to be loading shells into a pump shotgun in the middle of D.C.'s Freedom Plaza, which is against D.C.'s gun laws.
Town of Herndon Police confirmed to Patch that the warrant was to search for evidence that the ammunition he was loading into the gun in the video was live and real, which they found.
They also found a stash of drugs, Herndon Police said. The Washington Post reports the drugs were reportedly LSD, hashish and hallucinogenic mushrooms.
After the search of his Herndon home, Kokesh was arrested and charged with multiple narcotics and weapons violations, Herndon Police told Patch. He was transported to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, where has been held since.
On Thursday, Kokesh was scheduled for arraignment, but multiple sources report Kokesh refused to have his photo or fingerprints taken by officers, and refused to go to court, forcing officers to tie him into a wheelchair and wheel him in front of a closed-circuit TV to be seen by the judge and arraigned.
The judge on Thursday refused to grant him bond when he would not speak.
On Monday, multiple news outlets including The Washington Post and CBS reported that District Court Judge Thomas E. Gallahue said he would grant Kokesh $5,000 bond on the condition that he be supervised and not possess any guns.
“Hallucinogens and guns — let’s keep them apart,” the Post reported Gallahue said.
However, despite being granted bond, many friends of Kokesh's, including his roommates, told the Post they predict Kokesh will refuse bond and instead opt to stay in jail as a show of protest against the judge's stipulations.
“We’re not thinking he will want to post bond, because of the stipulations and because he wants to make a statement. That’s what he does,” Kokesh's friend Ed Yealey told the Post. Yealey reportedly used to film Kokesh for videos they posted on the Internet occasionally, though it is not clear if he filmed the July 4 video in question.
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