Cobb purchased at least twelve plots of land in Leith, with the goal of moving in other white supremacists and taking over the city government, despite heavy opposition from locals.
In October 2013, Cobb was featured as a guest on The Trisha Goddard Show, where he met with the lone black resident of Leith and his white wife.
[7] In a November 2013 interview, Goddard revealed the results of a DNA test, to which Cobb had agreed, indicating that he was genetically 14 percent Sub-Saharan African.
During this time, he was involved in unsolicited inter-state deliveries of a neo-Nazi newspaper published by Alex Linder,[clarification needed][12] and distribution of Project Schoolyard CDs to local children.
In March 2010, after posting videos of anti-racist activists online, he was discovered to be living in the Downtown Eastside area of Vancouver, British Columbia, where he also made an unsuccessful attempt to register a non-profit society called Whitepeace.
[1][21] In June 2010, Cobb was arrested by police in Vancouver, but released with a summons[22] after which he left Canada to return to the United States.
[24] At the end of December 2010, Canadian authorities issued a warrant for his arrest on the charge of "willful promotion of hatred" after a failure to appear".
[25] Cobb responded to the warrant by stating "You can find me in the orange easy chair near the elevator..." at the Flathead County Library in Kalispell.
[26] Cobb relocated to western North Dakota for its supply of high-paying jobs at oil fields and its high proportion of white residents.
Another white supremacist, Jeff Schoep, visited Leith in late September 2013 in order to support Cobb, and he brought several fellow members of the National Socialist Movement with him.
[31] Several former members of Anti-Racist Action formed a peaceful, grassroots movement called UnityND and began organizing a demonstration of their own in Leith, that would protest against both Cobb and Schoep.
Citing Cobb's failure to install a running water and sewage system in his properties within the 30-day deadline, the health unit announced that it would seek a court order to condemn his properties, unless he cooperated and released a plan detailing future water and sewage installation.
However, the district attorney dropped the second of seven original counts after one man, acting as a reporter in some capacity, later claimed that he "did not feel threatened".
[38] Together with his follower Kynan Dutton, the two men were scheduled for a preliminary hearing on seven felony accounts of terrorism to be held on January 13, 2014.
The lot owned by Linder was seized for nonpayment of property taxes, and Jeff Schoep later renounced his racist viewpoints.
The church was destroyed in an arson attack the same day that a local newspaper ran a story covering Cobb's plans.
The second consists of street interviews gathered at events where Cobb presents himself as a journalist for Vanguard News Network, asks a series of provocative questions laced with racial slurs, typically sparking outrage from targeted individuals.
[53][better source needed][54] One such disruption occurred in October 2005 at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda as civil rights leader Rosa Parks was lying in state.