Posted on 05/28/2008 5:38:31 PM PDT by jazusamo
PORTLAND, Ore. – Tre Arrow, a radical environmentalist who was once one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, has announced on his Web site he has accepted a plea deal on federal arson and conspiracy charges. Arrow had entered a not guilty plea. His attorney, Paul T. Loney, confirmed on Wednesday Arrow “is changing his plea” and a hearing date has been set for next Tuesday.
The U.S. Attorney's office in Portland did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Arrow, 34, who has legally changed his name from Michael Scarpitti, is charged in a 14-count federal indictment with helping to destroy concrete-mixing trucks in Portland in April 2001 and of firebombing logging trucks near Oregon's Mount Hood in June 2001.
Arrow became a fugitive after he was indicted, and was arrested in British Columbia in March 2004 on local shoplifting charges. He was extradited to the United States in February.
He said on his Web site he accepted a plea deal because he didn't want to take the risk of “spending the rest of my life in prison.”
His decision to accept a deal comes as federal officials have been scoring high-profile victories against radical environmentalists who have carried out arson attacks around the West.
Earlier this month in Sacramento, environmental activist Eric McDavid was sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to destroy a Northern California dam, a genetics lab and other targets. McDavid was convicted in March for masterminding what FBI agents described as an eco-terrorist plot in the name of the Earth Liberation Front.
In Seattle, Briana Waters is awaiting a May 30 sentencing after she was convicted of arson in a 2001 attack on a plant research center.
Last year in Oregon 10 other radicals were given prison sentences of up to 13 years for arson and other crimes claimed by the Earth Liberation Front and by the Animal Liberation Front from 1996 to 2001.
On his Web site, Arrow insisted that in accepting a plea agreement “I am in no way selling my soul just to receive a sweet deal from the prosecution. By this I mean I am not giving them any information about anyone or any thing which could lead to others being prosecuted.”
Arrow said he was offered “a deal I couldn't refuse, which takes into account the time I served in Canada.”
Just when ya think all the enviro’nazi’s have camo’d up in brooks brothers suits and hidden in management positions on wall street and in the energy industries a unemployed unwashed one floats too the surface...........
Doom on em .......
I hope he isn’t getting a sweet deal on this plea.
Tre Arrow Ping!
In Federal criminal court the judge is not bound by the sentencing recommendations. He must be dealing charges.
It was probably on FOX News that I heard the FBI considers “enviro-
terrorists” the second-most domestic threat.
Right behind Islamic terrorists (well, if the FBI is still allowed
to call Islamic terrorists “Islamics”!)
Yes, they have to be dealing charges. Hopefully the sentencing will be stiff on the charges he pleads to because he isn’t flipping anyone.
A jury of “his” peers will get him a medal ...........but I hope your correct !
The enviro radicals are having fits about the terrorist enhancement in the federal courts, it’s beautiful.
He’s probably fingering trees he knows who are plotting against the sapplings who can’t get to the light.
Could BO pardon these terrorists next year ?
Yikes! I hate to even think about him being there to do it but he probably would if he’s there due to his and his wifes views on our country.
Could BO pardon these terrorists next year ?
send the little terorist bastard to gitmo. or just drop him off enroute on a direct flight.
I suspect he has indeed turned over some names but isn’t required to own up to that publicly.
Expect it if Hussein gets the job in November.
Another reason to fight hard against BO
You could very well be right, he wouldn’t be very popular with the wackos if that got out.
What a pussy!
The rest of his cohorts at least had the stones to go to trial...
No, BC. The only one that went to trial was Briana Waters and she was found guilty of the lesser charges, scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.
The ten of The Family that were sentenced last year all made plea bargains and there’s still four of them that are fugitives and suspected to be out of the country.
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