Posted on 10/02/2009 3:23:04 PM PDT by jazusamo
Stephen James Murphy was detained in Texas by the FBI in connection with an incident in 2006 at a construction site for townhouses.
The FBI has arrested an environmental activist in connection with the attempted arson of unfinished town homes in Pasadena in 2006, authorities said Thursday.
Stephen James Murphy, 43, was arrested without incident Wednesday at his home in Arlington, Texas, after being named in a criminal complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.
According to the complaint, the Pasadena Fire Department responded to a construction site on Sept. 19, 2006, and found what it described as a "crude incendiary device" made from cigarettes that had failed to ignite.
Authorities said DNA found on the cigarettes matched Murphy's DNA, which was in a state Department of Justice database stemming from a previous arrest in California.
The next day, workers at the site could not start a tractor, where a note had been written in permanent marker that read, "ANOTHER TRACTOR DECOMMISSIONED BY THE E.L.F," federal officials said. Investigators found that someone had tampered with the tractor's ignition system.
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ELF Ping!
Anyone in for a waterboarding party?
They can live as the noble savages :hunting for roots and berries,dying of winter exposure,dying of a bad tooth,dying of a infected scratch,dying of predator attacks,etc.
The hypocrisy of the arsonist ecoterrorist is the damage they do to the environment with their act of protest, they’re nothing more than common criminals.
Your prescription for punishment agrees with my sensitivities on this issue. My point was that these loons know each other and a simple waterboarding of one we capture to find the devils nest of the rest of them.
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