Fraud suspect spins tale of Obama overthrow plot

JACKSON, Miss.If Ronnie Lee Owen is telling the truth, he can save President Barack Obama from a racist plot and stop an armed revolution by Mormon extremists, if police would just let him out of jail.

Authorities haven't let him out of jail. Instead, he goes on trial next week in Gulfport, Miss., on federal fraud charges for having three fake driver's licenses and issuing phony checks.
Owen, a 41-year-old fugitive wanted in eight states, is accused of writing fake checks across the country for thousands of dollars in goods, according to court records.
When he was arrested during a traffic stop in March 2009 in Biloxi, Miss., he and his fiancee had fantastical tales for police and the U.S. Secret Service, according to 101 pages of documents sealed Wednesday by a federal judge in Gulfport. The Associated Press obtained the documents before they were sealed.
According to transcripts of Owen's conversations with authorities, he tried to strike a deal to get out of jail by offering to help stop what he said was a white supremacist plot against Obama. Details were unclear, but Owen said he was contacted by someone he called Billy Ray who wanted information on hacking government computers in connection with the alleged plot, according to court papers.
Owen also said he knows an extremist Mormon leader and could help authorities infiltrate the group to stop an uprising.
Did authorities take him seriously? "The investigation we have
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