TEMPLAR COPS BUSTED
California’s rogue Masonic Police Department gets its collar felt
Last May, three people were charged in California with impersonating law enforcement officers after claiming to operate a police department with jurisdiction in 33 states (and Mexico City). Brandon Kiel (31), David Henry (46) and Tonette Hayes (59) said they belonged to a group called the Masonic Fraternal Police Department (MFPD). Kiel is (or was) a junior aide to California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris. Uniforms, weapons ID cards and enforcement-like vehicles were found in premises linked to the group. They were arrested on 30 April and released later that day. “When asked what is the difference between the Masonic Fraternal Police Department and other Police Departments the answer is simple for us. We were here first!” the group’s website page reads. “We are born into this Organization, our bloodlines go deeper than an application. This is more than a job it is an obligation.”
According to their website, the MFPD was created by the Knights Templar in 1100 BC – most remarkable, given that the crusader order was created over 2,200 years later, around AD 1119. Authorities began investigating the MFPD after police chiefs in southern California received a letter in late January that
They claim the department was created by the Knights Templar
announced Kiel would be serving as “chief deputy director” of the group. The letter claimed there were 5,686 lodges and that the department “will be able to acquire intel that is not accessible to non-fraternal entities”. Hayes is a pastor as well as a licensed a security guard, and has a firearm permit. She previously owned Masonic Security Service, and she and Henry ran the Beverly Hills-based MIB Investigative Agency, though its state license was suspended. Henry is also a licensed security guard and has a firearm permit. According to Variety, he won an Emmy in 2002 for his work as a producer on a Fox11 story.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said that there were no indications that the MFPD had carried out any law enforcement activities – except perhaps in Cloud Cuckoo Land. [AP] BBC News, Eve. Standard, 7 May 2015.