How Patriot Fart Managed to Get Another UHaul Bust Less Than A Month After Their Idaho One

Seriously, this crew is the most self-doxing operation to date! This happened last year but everyone is learning about it now!

STONEHAM, MA – Police body camera footage was released to the public showing reputed members of the neo-fascist organization Patriot Front being pulled over nine miles north of Boston, Massachusetts and cited for driving a UHaul truck with fictitious plates on July 2 of last year. The driver and one of the passengers were among the 31 members of the group who was arrested just the month before in Idaho for attempting to incite a riot at a Pride event there, his charges still pending.

According to the Boston Globe, who released the footage, the truck was pulled over alongside a stretch of I-93 in Stoneham after Massachusetts State Police tracked it with helicopters and cruisers as it left the area in Boston where the group just staged one of its flash mob marches, one where a local Black artist Charles Murrell III was shoved by Patriot Front associates. Police say they are still investigating but no arrests have ever been made.

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In the body camera video, an officer is heard asking the driver, Colton Michael Brown of Midvale, UT, about the license plates on the truck as they were not the plates on the rental agreement. Brown and the others, Garrett J Garland of Freeburg, IL and Ray M. Keith of Williamsport, PA, were ordered out of the truck and police searched the vehicle, eventually finding 25 riot shields, flags, a drum, a megaphone and other items. The address on the rental agreement, according to Brown, belonged to Brian Harwood, who is considered a “quartermaster” for Patriot Front and two months ago was placed on pre-trial probation and ordered to stay away from Framingham State University and do community service over charges related to Patriot Front stickers found on campus in 2021, according to court records.

Brown was issued a criminal citation for attaching a motor vehicle plate unlawfully to conceal identification of a motor vehicle, the only Patriot Front member charged with a crime related to their Boston rally that day. Court documents however later indicate that charges were eventually dismissed.

It was only weeks before that Brown was arrested as he was in the back of another UHaul truck along with 30 others that was stopped by police in Couer d’Alene, Idaho. Under the pseudonym ‘ND – John WA’ within Patriot Front, he is the group’s Network Director for the Pacific Northwest states, referred to by Patriot Front as “Network 8”. Known for routinely vandalizing murals and other monuments that uplift the LGBTQ+ community or Black and Brown communities, days after this stop Olympia, Washington Municipal Court arraigned Brown, along with another fellow Idaho arrestee Spencer Simpson, in a case where they were accused of vandalizing a  mural in Downtown Olympia that read ‘Respect and Love Olympia’ on October 16, 2021. The mural was painted over with the words “Patriot Front” and “Reclaim America”. Brown however, failed to appear in court that day and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Information about the current status of that case was not available at the time of this posting and Brown is still awaiting trial on the Idaho charges.

Garland, who in addition to being one of those arrested in Idaho, was also identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a Patriot Front member who vandalized a mural depicting famous Black Americans on a college campus in St. Louis, Missouri December 2021. Another Idaho arrestee however, Mitchell Wagner, was the only one charged with that crime. He was cited in Stoneham for a seat belt violation and paid the fine last August.

Video shows some Patriot Front members being chased to their cars after their Boston rally.