This image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows David Allen Brutsche, 42, who was arrested on domestic terrorism charges in Las Vegas. A four-month undercover operation in Las Vegas led to the arrests of Brutsche and Devon Campbell Newman. The arrests stopped a plot to abduct, torture and kill police officers in an effort to bring attention the "sovereign citizen" movement, authorities said Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department This image provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Devon Campbell Newman.who was arrested in Las Vegas. A four-month undercover operation in Las Vegas led to the arrests of David Alllen Brutsche and Newman. The arrests stopped a plot to abduct, torture and kill police officers in an effort to bring attention the "sovereign citizen" movement, authorities said Thursday Aug. 22, 2013. Newman was being held at the jail pending a court appearance on conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping charges. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) LAS VEGAS (AP) - A couple accused of plotting to abduct, torture and kill police in a plot to draw attention to an anti-authority "sovereign citizens" movement has told a Las Vegas judge they don't recognize his authority to keep them in jail. So noted, the judge told David Allen Brutsche and Devon Campbell Newman on Friday, before ordering them back to jail pending a preliminary hearing on Sept. Justice of the Peace Conrad Hafen set bail for Brutsche at $600,000 and appointed a public defender to represent him. Hafen named a lawyer to represent Newman and scheduled her bail hearing for Monday. Police say an undercover officer spent four months with Brutsche and Newman, collecting evidence of what authorities are calling a domestic terror operation. Federal authorities regard sovereign citizen extremists as domestic terrorists.