Biography
Adam Kokesh is a Marine veteran and antiwar activist who later organized libertarian civil-disobedience actions. In 2013 he spent approximately four months in US custody following a firearm protest in Washington, DC. This detention concerned his Freedom Plaza shotgun demonstration and associated criminal proceedings, rather than an antiwar demonstration.
WTOP’s contemporaneous report says U.S. Park Police and Herndon police searched Kokesh’s home on July 9, 2013, and that he was held at Fairfax County Adult Detention Center. The Fairfax sheriff’s department identified two Virginia drug accusations: possession of a Schedule I or II drug, and possession of such a drug while possessing a firearm. WTOP reports that a Fairfax court ordered him held without bond at his subsequent appearance. These initial allegations and bond proceedings are distinct legal details within the already recorded July 2013 custody episode; they do not establish a new conviction, additional imprisonment or the final disposition of those counts.
WTOP, Veteran, activist Adam Kokesh held without bond. The saved page’s July 10 publication stamp and its reference to a Thursday appearance do not independently establish the appearance’s exact day. Existing arrest, admission, release and custody totals remain unchanged.
