State of Deceit

Description

In the latter half of the 1800’s, James Reavis found a document granting an area 75 miles north to south, and 250 miles east to west, including Phoenix, Arizona, and Silver City, New Mexico, to a soldier named Peralta. It established a plot of land called the Barony of Arizona. Most of the productive mines and land in these states were involved in the claim. With other documents and some convincing, Reavis established himself and a young orphan girl as the Baron and Baroness of Arizona, laying claim to the entire territory within the boundaries of the grant. He took his case to court with documents, most of them true, but some of them forged or touched up. The Barony was rich beyond his every dream and Baron Reavis-Peralta lived the life of an international Baron until paid a $5,000 fine. the case was ruled a scam and he went to prison for 2 years and

That’s the truth

In 2021, someone has revived the grant, claiming all the original grant offered. This time with courts, anonymity, bullets and deceit. Who will win the case; the Federal Government, COVID 19, the anonymous claimant, or the Arizona Governor’s Special Investigators led by Les Brown, the man called Tan?

That’s the story