Reserve Lofts suspect an odd duck

Brian Alexik is the defendant being held in jail after his June arrest in connection with that mysterious bust in Downtown's Reserve Lofts. You know, the one where the AK-47 and counterfeit bills were found, with a CIA emblem installed in the floor and a portrait of Hugo Chavez. Alexik, who represents himself in court, has been talking to Downtown News reporter Ryan Vaillancourt, who covered the mystery before the arrest. They talk mostly about how Alexik claims the prosecutors have no legal case against him, but also some interesting stuff.

“I’m not a bad guy,” Alexik said during our first jail visit. Over the course of three months, he also called me more than a dozen times, for conversations that ranged from five minutes to an hour....

“I’m not what’s being portrayed. For my mother to see ‘armed and dangerous,’ that breaks her heart.”

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Alexik also delved into his political thinking in the two handwritten letters, totaling 25 pages, that he sent me from jail. In the letters, he paints America as a semi-secretly fascistic ruler in bed with international corporate interests.

As the cops busted his rented loft in April, Alexik fled to a friend's unit in the Packard Lofts and watched the bust go down from the balcony.