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Was a foiled bank heist a cry for help?
Bizarre acts are nothing new for main suspect in robbery attempt
Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009 | 2 a.m.
Eric Griffin
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It wasn’t a secret that Eric Griffin planned to enter a Wells Fargo Bank and demand access to the vault.
One day before Griffin and four accomplices did just that — walked into a Henderson branch claiming a fake federal search warrant gave them authority to seize the vault’s contents — Griffin filed a document in federal court announcing his plan. He also filed a second document declaring his “special task force” had the right to bear arms, make arrests and, if need be, execute detractors “on the spot.”
Griffin then signed the document and had it notarized.
The following morning, Nov. 13, five men walked into the Wells Fargo on West Sunset Road and, after some chaos, walked out empty-handed into a wall of waiting police. Though Griffin, 39, is being detained, his four accomplices have been released — indicating authorities believe Griffin was the ringleader.
Griffin isn’t like most would-be robbers. For starters, it appears he wanted not just money from the vault, but specific documents from a deposit box too.
Second, Griffin believes a tracking device has been planted on his person by unknown parties — possibly the government — who are using this “directed energy weapon” to control and communicate with him.
Only “out of respect for the law,” Griffin wrote in one of the documents, was he informing the court of his upcoming actions. Further, Griffin noted, he had evidence of the secret implant being used against him, “which is why licensed guards will be executing suspect and bring there (sic) death certificate to this court ... we will show this court that all suspect has been getting information illegally on plaintiff’s every move through devise (sic).”
Nobody was executed during this month’s bank robbery. If anything, it was a doomed fiasco from the outset. The bank manager did not believe the federal search warrant Griffin allegedly presented was real, and refused to give the men access to the vault, according to the FBI’s Las Vegas field office. The bank manager was then reportedly handcuffed until he convinced Griffin and the others — four men from California — that he would call for permission. He called security instead.
As it turns out, Griffin’s strange and unsuccessful bank robbery attempt was just the most recent in a string of strange and unsuccessful campaigns — the private war between Griffin and the people he believes are after him.
The foiled robbery came in the midst of a lawsuit Griffin filed against MountainView Hospital, where he was held for a number of days in July by doctors who thought he was mentally ill and a threat to himself or others. That lawsuit, like the numerous others Griffin has personally filed over the years, is full of rambling documents, demands and talk of government testing, untraceable chemicals, torture, cover-ups, tracking equipment, covert surveillance and something he calls “voice-to-skull” technology.
In his case against the hospital, Griffin filed subpoenas to the Justice Department for evidence of the tracking devices; to the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners for records, though it’s unclear which or why; and to U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo, for a “kidnap letter” Griffin claimed was placed into his account with a “fraudulent” check for $30,000 and an “investigating report” of unknown origin.
It appears these documents are what Griffin was after, at least in part, when he and four others stormed the bank this month.
How Griffin got anybody to join him during the attempted robbery remains unclear, though at least two of the five men — Jonathan Gray and Jonathan Miranda — signed Griffin’s notarized court filings.
The notary who stamped Griffin’s paperwork didn’t return calls for comment. Griffin’s lawyer, a federal public defender, also isn’t commenting on the case.
Court records do indicate, however, that Griffin’s competency is being questioned.
Internet records, meanwhile, indicate Griffin’s mental state has been questionable for some time.
On Nov. 9 Griffin posted a message to members of an online group dedicated to exposing secret mind control programs orchestrated by the government. In his message, Griffin announced he had rounded up a team of investigators who would provide a variety of services to fellow “T.I.’s” — short for “targeted individuals.” These services were to include implant detection, executions and victim intake.
In the past three years Griffin has filed lawsuits against the FBI, George W. Bush, Metro and Henderson police, District Attorney David Roger and the White House Executive Office, among many others. The subject of the suits never changes: mind control, secret experiments, mental slavery.
In June, Griffin sued U.S. District Court Judge Philip Pro for throwing out a case Griffin had filed against the Justice Department for allegedly interrogating him with mind control weapons. The case against Judge Pro was thrown out by another judge, who wrote that Griffin’s body of litigation is “fantastic, delusional and irrational.”
Privately, sources familiar with Griffin’s past say he’s been on a Secret Service watch list for some time, most likely because of his regular threats against government officials and his talk of snap executions.
The specter of being on anybody’s watch list — let alone that of the Secret Service — will likely send Griffin and fellow conspiracy theorists into a tailspin.
The fact that police were waiting outside the bank when he emerged from the foiled robbery attempt has not gone unnoticed by the online community. It’s not a coincidence police were at the ready, they say — it’s evidence Griffin’s mind is being read.
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Art Bell should interview this guy.
Glenn Beck should interview this guy.
Put him away..far away..
Is this Mandingo trying to redistribute society's wealth or obtain reparations for slavery?
Bring on the Seroquel.
Yet another example of what happens when social services are cut to the bone. The criminal justice system is then expected to handle all of society's problems, a task it is neither designed for nor equipped to accomplish.
mandingo had one to many bottles of Ripple for this picture.
Hopefully they'll lock this guy up for a long time. Otherwise, we'll be reading another story about him in a few years where he's walked into a hospital, bank or federal building and hurt people.
My guess is this won't be the last time we'll read about this guy and then there will be stories about how could the system have missed all the warning signs.
Must have been some pretty good weed or maybe slapped in the head one too many times in infancy...
I just can't believe 4 other people would even fathom following this guy into an act like robbing a bank, they must have listened to enough of his BS beforehand to make the decision....
"Execute detractors on the spot", talk about too much X-box 360,geez......
What are the odds of having 2 guys named Jonathan on a bank robbery?
Apparently Wells Fargo is above the law and can ignore a warrant. This should be looked in to and those responsible should be punished. Mind control should be outlawed.
lmao @burrittobandit
PNC Bank robbed me out of $56. That's a bank that needs to be investigated. PNC issues debit cards and then charges $25 and $7 per day for an overdraft. Funny how it takes a week to notify you! Absolutely criminal!
Obviously a fan of the "Bug-killer" radio show,
maybe he ate too much "soy."
Sorry, folks, but individuals reporting mind control and similar should be listened to sympathetically. A book by a citizen of Bhutan (in the Himalayas) has mind control claims that have been verified by academic and military experts. The author, Tek Nath Rizal (or Rijal),a prominent pro-democracy activist, was released after international pressure in 1999 after a ten-year torture imprisonment in Bhutan. He is now living in exile in Nepal. The book says a 'mind control device' was used to torture him and a number of Bhutanese freedom fighters. (The United States does not now have diplomatic relations with Bhutan.)
Here is an expert commenting on Mind Control . He is Professor Dr. Indrajit Rai, Nepal government representative: "Being a professor of War Studies, I found, during my military research, the mind-control technique applied to the war prisoners. It is an electromagnetic mind-control technique which can take full control of the person's body and mind permanently. It uses modulated microwave to produce audible voices in the person's head. It is in the form of subliminal hypnotic command and the victim can be hypnotically programmed for years without knowing.
Thoughts are implanted in the victim's mind without letting him know. In microwave hearing, nobody can hear the voices except the targeted individual... The motive of mind-control is to destroy the targeted person's life. He digresses from his goal, forgets his mission, behaves strangely with his family members and relatives and can't follow his routine life.... ...the Bhutanese government used these devices on him and pumped out all his thoughts and feelings. From the experiences of such victim it reveals that there is an acute need to take extra care in handling them as their mind are highly destabilized they always feel loneliest most insecure totally helpless and living in permanent terror and fear of unknown."
(Rai is a Security Expert and a Member of Constituent Assembly of Nepal).
We must all wise-up about mind control, fast.
My take on this guy is he is not strange or stupid but a very brave man. He find himself put in a near-helpless position, but is fighting back. I don't know the rights and wrongs of this, but it's nice to find red-blooded men who still have the courage and thinking to do this. A lot of men don't any more. (Too many female hormones in the water?)
I don't know if the Sun site will allow me to post links, but, if you are a victim, and there are thousands of victims in the US and around the world, here is a link to a group which shows expert research on mind control in the USA and round the world, and which might be of assistance to you. It is (first type www.) mindjustice.org. It has a lot of technical papers and resources to help sufferers, provided they have college-level reading ability. Good luck, my friends, and be brave. America needs you, but it doesn't even know that yet.
Bats in the belfry.
they ramped up harp
landfeee,we gotta get you to the Stargate and transport you to planet pfz-231 were you be safe.
landfeee is correct, folks. More are secretly becoming victims every day in this country and throughout the world. If you don't already know that remote mind control technology exists, then you need to start learning - quickly. Please visit the website he recommends. Also: http://educate-yourself.org/mc/
here's workingfrofreedom he must want to use that 2 for 1 coupon to bring landfeee to see my shrink day!!
You know the band the Police had a song called " Voices Inside My Head" Think it was their national antheme.
Landfeee brings up a good point. While tin foil hats--big ones, pointy at the top, of course--are effective at fending off electromagnetic mind control attacks, what are we to do about the female hormones in the water supply??? And what about my cousin Earl, who was captured by aliens and probed in the rectum for hours and hours???
The tin foil hat did nothing for poor old Earl!!!
This behavior is very common among crack cocaine users. He is most likely a crack head. Cry for help? No, just drugged out of his mind. The pic looks like he has been up on his mission for days. Ewe.
Phargo: are you saying that Dingo and birdi are co-conspiritors? Holy cow, Kemosabe!
"Yet another example of what happens when social services are cut to the bone."
What do you think would help this nutjob?
A room at the state looney house? Maybe a full-time employee to go about his day with him to make sure he doesn't hurt anybody?
I FULL ON AGREE WITH THE DUDE!! I LIVED IN HENDERSON, I'VE SEEN SOME CRAZY STUFF. BEEN LABELED A NUTJOB BUT THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE GUY AND ME. THE POLICE AND HANDLERS FOR THE FBI, DEA, ATF, AND SECRET SERVICE HAS INTERVIEWED ME, FOLLOWED ME, AND TRY TO THROW FALSE CHARGES ON ME. MY MOM THOUGHT I WAS A LOST CAUSE AND WANTED TO COMMIT ME FOR THE RAMBLINGS I DID, BUT THEN A POLICE DETECTIVE CAME TO MY RESCUE. I WAS ARRESTED IN A DIFFERENT COUNTY AND THE H.P.D. CAUGHT WIND OF IT AND TRACKED DOWN MY MOTHER OHN THE FAR NORTHWEST SIDE OF VEGAS. THEY WANTED ACCESS TO HER STORAGE THAT HELD MY BELONGINGS. WHEN ASKED WHY THEY WANT IT AND HOW DID THEY EVEN KNOW I HAD HIDDEN STUFF IN HER STORAGE THEIR COMMENT WAS THAT MAYBE SHE SHOULD BELIEVE WHAT I'M TELLING HER AND TRY TO BE THERE FOR ME CAUSE THIS WAS GOING TO BE A BUMPY ROAD. THEY ALSO TOLD HER THAT 2/3 OF WHAT I KEPT "RAMBLING" TO HER WAS THE TRUTH I JUST COULDN'T UNSCRAMBLE THE INFORMATION TO MAKE SENSE. THE ITEMS I HAD HIDDEN IN THE STORAGE BY THE WAY... HARDDRIVES THAT WERE USED IN SOME VERY ILLEGAL WAYS AND CERTAIN NAMES IN THE FILES THAT SUGGESTED THE ADMINISTRATOR WHO OWNED SUCH THINGS WERE POLICE AND FEDERAL AGENTS. THEY GATHERED ALL THE STUFF AND ONCE I FINALLY GOT TO IT GO FIGURE THEY RETURNED IT COMPLETLY DEFRAGGED!! I KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING GOING IN HENDERSON AND IT'S ON SOME MESSED GOVERNMENTAL LEVEL
Pinky: did you serve on the Disneyland submarine with Dingo?
I find the remarks here to be oh-so-witty, but they don't change the fact that what Eric Griffin is going through is a real experience.
For the benefit of anyone who has been experiencing certain things they can't understand and nobody else wants to believe - people following them everywhere, mysterious sensations, and highly invasive surveillance - and who have stumbled onto this story, I will offer some advice.
There are organizations that are aware of what's going on, and are trying to stop it. Here are some of them. Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance: freedomfchs.com . Christians Against Mental Slavery: slavery.org.uk . North American Freedom Foundation: naff.org . Mind Justice: mindjustice.org .
If you're trying to understand the big picture - why you got targeted for destruction, where the funding is coming from, and what the point of all this is - you could study historical parallels in East Germany, or read Mark Rich's online book, "The Hidden Evil". The Hidden Evil is big, it is powerful, and it has the minds of most people, including the ones cracking jokes on this page. www.thehiddenevil.com .
For an orientation and survival guide, check out areyoutargeted.com .