A Polk City man is being held without bond in the Polk County jail on armed kidnapping and armed false imprisonment charges.

  • Activist was arrested for kidnapping, false imprisonment
  • Ronnie Davis is accused of holding a woman against her will
  • Fellow anti-government activists don't believe the claims

Ronnie Davis is accused of holding a woman against her will on a piece of property he shares with more than a dozen other anti-government activists.

Davis and his group claim they are fighting a corrupt, illegitimate system of laws. They call themselves the Bears Law and Forensic Science Team. They specialize in cases involving children being taken from parents by state child welfare agencies.

Group members do not consider themselves citizens of the United States. They believe they are not subject to laws, including needing a driver’s license.

"So we have corporations masquerading as government and what they are doing is railroading innocent people in their jails," said member Adam Samuel. “And what they are doing is storing them in their warehouses as a mortgage backed security."

Polk Sheriff’s detectives said a woman named Angela Yeager claimed she traveled from Texas to the group’s property in Polk City to study Davis’s legal methods.

In an affidavit, Yeager claims that Davis said he was going to make her his wife.

Group member Thomas Nelson said Davis had no interest in Yeager.

"There was nothing romantic going on between them," said Nelson. "He wanted nothing from her. He's got his girlfriend thing going on. He doesn't need that."

Yeager claimed she had been held against her will and finally figured out a way to leave the group's property last month. She said she feared for her life.

Yeager also claimed that Davis threatened to kill group members and the only way they could leave was in a body bag.

Nelson, however, openly displayed a handgun in a holster. He said the idea that group members were being held against their will was not true.

"OK, No. 1," started Nelson, "I'm walking around with a gun and how many times have you seen abductees walking around with guns? Or further, if we were abductees why was it when the police pulled us over, why weren't we going, 'Oh thank you for saving us?'"