She Bought Her Dream Home. Then a 'Sovereign Citizen' Changed the Locks.
The official-looking letters started arriving soon after Shanetta Little bought the cute Tudor house on Ivy Street in Newark. Bearing a golden seal, in aureate legalistic language, the documents claimed that an obscure 18th-century treaty gave the sender rights to claim her new house as his own.
She dismissed the letters as a hoax.
And so it was with surprise that Ms. Little found herself in her yard on Ivy Street on a June afternoon as a police SWAT team negotiated with a man who had broken in, changed her locks and hung a red and green flag in its window. He claimed he was a sovereign citizen of a country that does not exist and for whom United States laws do not apply.
Ms. Little was a victim of a ploy known as paper terrorism, a favorite tactic of an extremist group that is one of the fastest
growing, according to government experts
But the strange letters declaring that Ms. Little’s home is not her own still come. They arrive on faux-consular letterhead using the name Lenapehoking of the Al Moroccan Empire at New Jersey State Republic. Lenapehoking was the land between New York City and Philadelphia that includes New Jersey and was home to the Indigenous Lenape tribe before it was colonized by European settlers. Mr. John and his group refer to themselves as Moors.
“The Moors claim to be about Black liberation and opportunity, and uplifting Black people,” Ms. Little said in an interview seated on a staircase inside her house. “But he is literally oppressing me and taking what’s mine as a Black woman.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/nyregion/moors-newark.html
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What they're doing is so illegal that it takes my breath away.
On a more serious note, the issue with people taking over houses or so called renters refusing to leave and the cops claiming it is civil matter is a very serious one that the law is way behind on in most places.
What you did there. 
a wonderful Seinfeld episode. "Moops"....
kinda.
the new owner is tearing down the house, and someone seems to have moved in recently in the past few weeks. No idea what they are doing - I don't hear any deconstruction and I don't see anything leaving the house. Who knows.
But yeah this is my worst nightmare! A coworker had a rental house that sat vacant for a couple of weeks. He was fixing the place up to sell and one day found his locks had been changed. Squatters had moved in. The police ran them off and nothing was ever mentioned about sovereign citizens. But that would freak me out to have someone move into a piece of property that I own and try to take it over.