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William (Cobra) Staubs says in 2009 he moved into a Broward County residence where meetings were held to discuss the tentative assassination of Timothy Charles Holmseth.

During a recorded interview with Holmseth, Staubs also admits to holding the firearm that was to be used to kill Holmseth.

Staubs also says he was asked to help clear the home of multiple firearms, because the plotters expected the police to be arriving, and they needed the guns removed from the house and hidden because the homeowner is a convicted felon.

Staubs also says he believes the guns might have been stolen.

Staubs, who was arrested in 2009 by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office (Florida) for felony false imprisonment has told Holmseth he met in person with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and FDLE commissioner Gerald Bailey.  

MINNESOTA CONNECTION

Police records in Polk County, Minnesota show the East Grand Forks Police Department (EGFPD) was in regular contact with the very individuals plotting to murder Holmseth.

In a civil rights lawsuit filed in United States District Court – District of Minnesota Holmseth v. City of East Grand Forks et al, Holmseth details how he repeatedly reported the threats to Lt. Detective Rodney Hajicek, EGFPD, who took no action whatsoever.

E-mails obtained from the Polk County Attorney’s (Minnesota) office reveal that Hajicek was actively conspiring against Holmseth; assisting individuals suspected of kidnapping HaLeigh Cummings, at the very same time Holmseth was assisting the Minnesota and Jacksonville FBI with actionable leads.

The leads the FBI followed from Holmseth led directly to those plotting to murder Holmseth.

In 2012, the EGFPD used police officer Aeisso Schrage, the Department’s resident member of the Pine to Prairie Gang and Drug Task Force, to obtain a search warrant to seize Holmseth’s journalism equipment and hard-drive. Neither the EGFPD nor the Polk County Sheriff’s Office has any chain of evidence documentation to show where the seized property was located for over three months. However, the Administrative log of the computer shows it was turned on by an unknown person at an unknown location while in the custody of law enforcement.

EGF City Attorney Ronald Galstad told Minnesota State Judge Tamara Yon that his agent’s were in communication with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) regarding a tentative forensic search of Holmseth’s hard-drive.

However, when the BCA was contacted regarding Galstad’s claims, the agency knew nothing about the case.  “The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension had no involvement in this case. We were not requested to conduct a forensic examination on your computer,” said Drew Evans, assistant superintendent, BCA.

During a federal court hearing on December 17, 2014, Althea Huyser, attorney, Minnesota Attorneys General’s office, told the Honorable Leo I. Brisbois that the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office did not know that Holmseth’s life had been threatened.

Huyser’s assertion the Minnesota Attorney General’s office was not aware of the threats out of Florida were unconvincing, because the formal complaint includes an affidavit from Staubs describing the death threats in detail.

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