Court orders mental health assessment of sovereign citizen hit with slew of charges after traffic stop

A ranting sovereign citizen attempted to charge police officers $33,000 an hour during a traffic stop - before being hit with a slew of charges.

A woman who filmed herself ranting sovereign citizen talking points before a getting in a physical altercation with police has been sent for mental health assessment after being hit with a slew of charges.

An 18-minute video, shared on YouTube, showed the woman refusing to answer questions or comply with officers after being stopped for driving an unregistered car at Casula Mall in southwest Sydney on February 2.

“I’m a living woman, I don’t want anything to do with your corporatisation in any way shape or form,” she says.

Declaring that she is a “living woman” and a “gypsy”, she refuses to give her details or answer questions about her car, seen pulled over in a Coles loading dock with a dog inside.

“So far as you’ve got here I’m on 16,888 pounds [$33,407] per hour,” she says.

“The courts have been notified, so the fact that you are now stopping me, that’s how much you have to pay me.”

The officer tells her he believes she is driving an unregistered vehicle.

“Are we are or are we not on dry land?” she says.

“I’m not going to repeat your little magical words, I’m not under your spell. It’s called entrapment. This is going to be emailed to every courtroom and you will lose your job.”

Asked if she is the owner of the vehicle, she declares “it’s private property, so it doesn’t have an owner” and that “it’s not a vehicle, it’s a carriage”.

The officers attempted to reason with her. Picture: YouTube

“It has horsepower under the bonnet,” she says. “See this sign here? Restricted area.”

The officer tells her he is trying to be reasonable but “I’m finding you very disrespectful”, as his superiors arrive to deal with the situation.

She tells them her first name and that she doesn’t have a last name “because I’m no longer participating in your fraud”.

“I was born on this land, I wasn’t birthed on this land and I’m not under a birth certificate,” she says.

“I’m on God’s dry land. I travel wherever I want to, I’m a gypsy.”

She insults the newly arrived police sergeant, telling him “oh so you’re a least a level one or two Freemason” and that “I don’t stand under any man, I stand under my God”.

“God didn’t build these roads,” he retorts.

“I don’t care,” she says. “You didn’t have permission to build these roads on him. Have you asked the Queen of Australia for permission to be here? I’m free to travel.”

She appeared to slam the door on the officer. Picture: YouTube

“No you’re not free, I’m sorry,” he says.

The woman continues to ramble about the Geneva Convention, “Black’s Law” and that she is “not bound by legislation under the Queen”.

She warns the officers that they “don’t have permission to go into private property” to check the vehicle’s details.

“Get away from it!” she says, appearing to slam the door into the officer. “Don’t touch me, I’m disabled!”

The video ends abruptly as the woman is arrested.

“You’re under arrest for assault police,” an officer. “That’s it, take her. Come on.”

NSW Police confirmed that the woman, who has around 2000 followers on social media where she prolifically posts about right-wing, sovereign citizen and conspiracy theory topics, was charged with a string of offences.

She claimed her car was a ‘restricted area’. Picture: YouTube

“About 8pm on Sunday February 2, 2025, officers from Liverpool City Police Area Command were conducting high-visibility patrols of a shopping centre in Ingham Drive, Casula, when they spoke with the 45-year-old female driver of a vehicle at the location,” a spokeswoman said.

“It will be alleged that the vehicle was unregistered and uninsured. Police will further allege that the woman failed to provide a driver’s licence when requested. The woman was arrested and taken to Liverpool Police Station, where additional inquiries established her driver’s licence was suspended. Checks also revealed an outstanding suspended firearms licence.”

She was charged with seven offences including not surrendering a suspended firearms licence to police, driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle, driving on a suspended licence, refusing to provide her details and hindering or resisting officers.

She appeared before Liverpool Local Court on Monday, February 3.

No pleas were recorded.

Magistrate Clare Farnan adjourned the case, ordering the woman undergo a mental health assessment.

Sovereign citizens are a fringe, anti-government legal movement who erroneously believe laws and regulations have no jurisdiction over them.

The sovereign citizen movement emerged in the US but gained prominence in Australia during Covid lockdowns.

Its adherents often make “pseudo-legal” arguments, variously described by courts as legal “gibberish” or “gobbledygook”.

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