GREEN COVE SPRINGS – An Orange Park man who is part of a movement that espouses anti-government tenets and homeland terrorist tactics has accepted a plea deal over charges he filed false tax forms in the names of elected officials to make them liable for his debts.

Authorities charged 44-year-old Richard Price Tucker with six counts of unlawful filing of false documents in early March, 2016. The yearlong court case will end on April 19 when Fourth Circuit Judge Michael Sharrit sentences Tucker. According to court documents, Tucker will serve 10 years in prison for six counts of unlawfully filing false documents or records against real or personal property. A convicted felon, Tucker’s new sentence will be added to a 15-year sentence he already faces.

Authorities extradited Tucker to Clay County Jail on March 30, 2016 from the Williamsburg, South Carolina Federal Correctional Institution after he began filing the documents.

Between March 27, 2015 and July 15, 2015, Tucker filed multiple Internal Revenue Service forms in a complex fraud scheme such as 1099-OID, 1096, 1099-A and a “commercial notice of appointment of fiduciary creditor and debtor.”

He placed a $100 million monetary value on his life and directed Fourth Judicial Circuit Judge John Skinner, Former State Attorney Angela Corey and a legal secretary to “accept and receive all liabilities on his behalf” and pay all claims and bills associated with his Social Security number.

Similar filings continued long into the investigation and eventually involved some two dozen elected and court officials.

When Tucker filed fiduciary forms against Corey, she was forced her to recuse herself to avoid any appearance of impropriety.

On June 22, 2015 Gov. Rick Scott signed by executive order naming 7th Judicial Circuit State Attorney R. J. Larizza to prosecute Tucker’s case.

In a May 2016 interview conducted inside the Clay County Jail, Tucker said he viewed his incarceration as “false imprisonment” and likened it to slavery. He then said he would continue filing fraudulent fiduciary forms against anyone who participated in his prosecution.

“Anyone who comes into this transaction will become my fiduciary,” he said. “I’m not going to stop. I’ll take this whole thing to trial.”

Tucker represented himself for much of the motion hearings. In mid-January, Public Defender Alex King was appointed as Tucker’s co-counsel. On Jan. 20, prosecuting attorney Mitchell D. Bishop emailed King explaining he wanted to end the trial by plea bargain.

“I hold out hope that we could resolve this and not drag the victims through an entire trial,” Bishop wrote. “But we’re ready to go if he wants his trial.”

Tucker considers himself a sovereign citizen both in conversation and on IRS filings. Sovereign Citizens are a fringe movement that began in the 1800s from a conspiracy that an illegitimate government had overtaken the lawful U.S. government.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation classifies sovereign citizens as a domestic terrorist threat due to the intense criminal activity members have perpetrated in the past, including bomb threats, the murder of police officers, and, in Tucker’s case, paper terrorism.

Filing forms of this nature and others is a standard tactic among sovereign citizens looking to jam the cogs of bureaucracy as long as possible.

To this end, Tucker has also advised Fourth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Gary L. Wilkinson that his name is “Copyrighted and Trademarked in the Office of the Secretary of State of California,” and that unauthorized use of his name will result in a $500,000 fine, with subsequent violations resulting in a fine of $1.5 million.

The sovereign citizen movement recruits its members online and in prisons, where its members promote the belief in a deep state and intense mistrust in institutions.

Tucker has a lengthy arrest record including two in 2009 in Clay County, one for manufacturing methamphetamine where a child was present and another for possession of drug paraphernalia and marijuana as well as conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine in 2011. He was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison following that conviction.

Shortly thereafter, he also pleaded guilty to lewd battery on a teenager and was sentenced to 13 months in state prison.

Tucker said he has struggled with drug addiction, especially methamphetamine, to help him walk after he was injured while working.

Tucker maintains that he is doing nothing wrong, but simply standing up for his rights as a citizen.

“I’m not a tax protestor,” he said. “I’m an American.”

His sentencing is scheduled for April 19.