Freemen Follower Evicted From Home

A lakeside house that once doubled as a home for the dying was boarded up Monday and its occupant evicted.

Isobel Oxx was not at her Leeward Circle home when a locksmith, Realtor and three representatives of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department arrived at 2:30 p.m.

Oxx, a follower of the Freemen movement, cared for the terminally ill in her home from August 1995 to December 1996. Last September, she lost title to her house to foreclosure after trying to pay off her mortgage with a phony check, according to court documents.

She has been fighting the eviction for months.

Today, Oxx is expected back in the Simi Valley courthouse to launch one last attempt to reverse the lockout.

Her motion is part of a lawsuit she has filed against the lender, Texas Commerce Bank, to rescind the original loan.

In an unrelated case, Oxx is scheduled to go on trial Wednesday on federal charges of jury tampering.

The Westlake resident is accused of trying to push pamphlets advocating jury nullification into the hands of jurors hearing the fraud case against another Freemen follower, M. Elizabeth Broderick.

The sheriff’s deputies who approached Oxx’s front door Monday were greeted by a sign indicating her views:

“No Trespassing, including all public officials or agents thereof: This is to put you on notice that the owner or tenant of this property requires that all public officials abide by the provisions of the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution of the United States of America.”

The same sign was found on a side gate and on the sliding-glass door facing Westlake Lake.

Locksmith Koko Tavitian of Glendale said every door and window will be boarded. “We’re going to make it harder for them to get in,” he said.

Sgt. Noel Brown said the department typically sends only one deputy to assist in evictions. In Oxx’s case, he said, “We’d heard about her connections and we didn’t know what to expect.”

Oxx’s neighbors, who unsuccessfully fought her attempts to open a congregate care facility in her home, were thankful for the eviction.

“If I had known this was going on, I would have brought balloons [to celebrate] and set out chairs to watch,” said one neighbor who declined to give his name.

Oxx was unavailable for comment.