Plainfield News

Convicted tax evader Elaine Brown was sentenced Friday for plotting to kill federal agents.

Elaine Brown, at aA news conference in 2007 with her husband, Ed, at their home in Plainfield, N.H., told a court Friday that she had fought tyranny and oppression.

A defense lawyer says 30 years in prison is plenty for tax evader Elaine Brown, who was convicted with her husband of plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff at their Plainfield home.The Browns were convicted in July of amassing an arsenal at their 110-acre rural compound in 2007.

Please do not get discouraged. Many of us have had, quite literally, a rotten year for tomatoes.

A Sanbornville couple who supported tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown during a nearly nine month standoff with federal agents have been arrested and charged with participation in tax fraud schemes in Massachusetts involving more than $16 million.

A Sanbornville couple who supported tax protesters Ed and Elaine Brown during a nearly nine month standoff with federal agents have been arrested and charged with participation in tax fraud schemes in Massachusetts involving more than $16 million.

Behind the pulling arena and beyond the collection of John Deere equipment yesterday at the North Haverhill Fair was a square patch of tall grass waiting to be cut down by a small army of adults and children eager for a chance to show their mettle in the art of hand mowing.

Lawyers for Ed and Elaine Brown are asking a New Hampshire judge to investigate whether they should get a new trial on weapons and conspiracy charges now that someone claiming to have new evidence has come forward.

In This June 18, 2007, file photo, tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown talk to reporters during a news conference in Plainfield, N.H. On Thursday July 9, 2009, the Browns were convicted on all counts of plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff at their fort-like home in rural New Hampshire.

After seven hours of deliberations, a jury in New Hampshire found convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown guilty again-- this time for plotting to kill federal agents.

Ed and Elaine Brown talk to reporters during a news conference in Plainfield, N.H., in this June 18, 2007 file photo.

CONCORD, N.H. - Convicted tax evader Ed Brown just "wanted to live" when he stockpiled guns and explosives at his home during a 2007 standoff, his defense lawyer said Wednesday during closing arguments in Brown's weapons and conspiracy trial.

New Hampshire tax evader Ed Brown took the stand Tuesday during his federal weapons trial, but he may not get a chance to continue.

The jury in the trial of Ed and Elaine Brown took a video tour of the couple's Plainfield, N.H., home, and an expert pointed out dozens of weapons prosecutors say the couple stored in the house.

Jurors in the trial of a tax-evading New Hampshire couple viewed video Wednesday of a vast arsenal that prosecutors say they stockpiled inside their turreted mountaintop home, including an improvised bomb on a kitchen shelf, next to the cookie jar.

Minutes before an undercover team of U.S. marshals captured Ed Brown on the front porch of his fortified Plainfield home, he told one of the agents officials wouldn't arrest him, according to the marshal, who testified at Brown's trial for conspiracy and weapons possession yesterday.

A federal agent told a jury on Thursday that he had tax evader Ed Brown in his rifle sight and was ready to pull the trigger the day of a failed raid on Brown's Plainfield, N.H., home two years ago.

A federal jury has begun hearing evidence against Edward and Elaine Brown, the New Hampshire couple accused of stockpiling weapons to keep federal agents at bay after they were convicted of tax evasion.

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A jury has been selected for the weapons and explosives trial of the New Hampshire couple convicted two years ago of tax evasion.