Kirby Kehoe Wants Statement Suppressed

Tue., Dec. 1, 1998

From Staff

A man charged with conspiracy and racketeering in an alleged plot to set up a whites-only nation asked Monday that a statement he gave to federal investigators be kept out of his trial.

Kirby Kehoe was interviewed in August 1997 and acknowledged selling a gun at a show in Seattle on Feb. 11, 1996, Kehoe’s attorney said in the court filing.

But the attorney said Kehoe had not been read his rights by investigators and so the statement should be suppressed.

Kehoe lived in northeastern Washington and western Montana in recent years and was arrested last spring in Springdale, Wash., on federal charges of illegal possession of unregistered weapons.

Kehoe pleaded guilty, and a judge in Spokane sentenced him last July to four years in prison.

In addition, Kehoe, his son Chevie Kehoe of Colville, Wash., and Daniel Lee of Yukon, Okla., also known as Danny Graham, are indicted in an alleged plot to revolt against the federal government and create a whites-only nation.

As part of the plot, Chevie Kehoe and Lee also are charged with the 1996 deaths of William and Nancy Mueller and her 8-year-old daughter, Sarah Powell, whose bodies were found in the Illinois Bayou near Russellville.

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