California Attorney General Aide Arrested for Involvement in "Masonic Police Department"(?)

[Kamala Harris Election PAC]

An aide to California's attorney general was arrested last week,
which is not unusual, because political figures often get
arrested. What was unusual was that the individual, Brandon
Kiel, was arrested on charges not of corruption or abuse of
power but for involvement in "a rogue police force that claimed
to exist for more than 3,000 years and have jurisdiction in 33
states and Mexico."

What?

>From the Los Angeles Times:

Brandon Kiel, David Henry and Tonette Hayes were arrested last
week on suspicion of impersonating a police officer through
their roles in the Masonic Fraternal Police Department,
according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
What?

Suspicions about the Masonic Fraternal Police Department --
whose members trace their origins to the Knights Templar -- were
aroused when various police chiefs in Southern California
received a letter in late January that announced new leadership
for the group, sheriff’s officials said.
After the letters were mailed, a man claiming to be Kiel and
describing himself as the police force’s “chief deputy director”
called various law enforcement agencies to schedule in-person
meetings, sheriff’s officials said.
A subsequent investigation found "badges, weapons, uniforms and
law enforcement paraphernalia" at sites affiliated with the
group, which has a website:

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Screen shot/Masonic Fraternal Police Department

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_slatest/2015/05
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What is going on?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/05/07/california_mas
onic_police_department_weird.html