Posted on 02/10/2005 6:54:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Investigators said Thursday they have made an arrest in one of three recent alleged eco-terror arsons east of Sacramento.
Ryan Daniel Lewis, 21, of Newcastle, was arrested at his home Wednesday and charged with the Jan. 12 attempted firebombing of a commercial building in the nearby Sierra foothills city of Auburn, northeast of Sacramento.
The FBI and U.S. attorney's office said the arson attempt was believed to have been committed on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front, a shadowy environmental extremist movement.
No arrests have been made in a similar attempted firebombing at a subdivision in nearby Lincoln Dec. 27, or in the Feb. 7 arson at the 128-unit Pinewoods apartment complex in Sutter Creek to the south.
The FBI said its Joint Terrorism Task Force is continuing its investigation.
The five incendiary devices found at the Auburn commercial complex matched three devices found in homes in the upscale Lincoln subdivision, the FBI said previously.
Letters to several newspapers purporting to be from the Earth Liberation Front said the attempted Lincoln arson was a symbolic statement against suburban sprawl, while the Auburn office building was targeted as "a statement against work and the horror of the (cubicle)."
The letters promised more actions "every few weeks."
None of those devices exploded, but seven crude explosive devices were found at the Sutter Creek apartment complex about 45 miles southeast of Sacramento, causing an early morning blaze. Just two of the apartments were occupied at the time, and fire sprinklers helped minimize the damage.
Nearby graffiti asserted that "We will win - ELF," investigators said.
The FBI says ELF has caused more than $100 million in damage since 1996, including an arson at a five-story condominium under construction in San Diego in August 2003 that caused $50 million in damages.
Send him to Gitmo.
Castrate him.
Ryan Daniel Lewis, aka ELFTerrorist at the whacky, left-wing web forum Democratic Underground, screamed obscenities and mumbled the incoherent political rantings of former Vice President Albert Gore as he was led away in handcuffs.
Let me be the first to say:
Put panties on his head!
He is a terrorist, after all.
I like the sound of "Keel hauling " it's enviornmentally frendly and painfull too!!!
I favor boiling in oil.
Man I hate having my ping list down.
Man I hate having my ping list down.
You ain't got that AFLAC thingy? ;)
Changed operating systems in the computer and the list is on a hard drive that xp won't read. I do have a recovery plan though.
Peanut, vegetable or motor?
W12X
Nearby graffiti asserted that "We will win - ELF," investigators said.
What is it with these dickwads? Don't they know how to make a fuse or light a match?
If this is what's left of the 'far-left', we're just gonna have to start collecting them with pointy-sticks and trash bags, like they do in the parks...............FRegards
We just had a hit on a new apartment complex (2 units occupied) a few days ago. ELF grafitti on the premises.
they got the one at cal tech who set the humvees on fire.
whatta 'bout the san diego apartment building fire?
Then lock 'em up and throw away the keys.
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whatta 'bout the san diego apartment building fire?
Not sure but I think it's still under investigation, no arrests,, but.. once this little putz gets a taste of what time he's looking at, maybe he has some info he'll share.
Then burn the corpse. Mmmmmmm, meat vapors + hydrocarbons...
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