what'cha gonna do when they come for you?
Posted on 03/29/2005 3:15:20 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - An animal rights activist has been arrested here on a federal domestic terrorism warrant after spending seven years on the run, authorities said Tuesday.
Peter Daniel Young, 27, was indicted along with two others by a federal grand jury in 1998 in connection with trespassing on mink farms in Wisconsin, South Dakota and Iowa, and allegedly freeing thousands of the animals, Supervisory Special Agent Mike Johnson in the FBI's Milwaukee bureau said.
Young fled soon after the indictment, Johnson said.
He was arrested March 21 at a Starbucks Coffee shop in San Jose.
According to a police report, San Jose Officer Ian Cooley witnessed Young attempting to steal music CDs from the cafe. Young was arrested and found to be hiding a handcuff key taped inside the rear of his belt, according to the report.
A fingerprint search located the outstanding warrant.
Young was held Tuesday in the Santa Clara County Jail. He was set to appear in court Tuesday afternoon to face the most recent shoplifting charges, his attorney, Lupe Martinez, said.
Johnson said a Santa Clara County judge would set a date for Young's extradition back to Wisconsin to answer to the federal indictment.
"The fact that he's been a fugitive for seven years, I think the chances are pretty slim they're going to let him go on bond," Johnson said, adding that federal authorities suspect Young is affiliated with the activist group, Animal Liberation Front.
"In the interest of doing kind things for the animals, they actually end up doing the opposite," Johnson said. "The mink get released and they're quickly preyed upon by other animals and get run over by automobiles. So they certainly don't enjoy a kind fate once they are released into the harsh Wisconsin environment."
Johnson said he couldn't comment on any possible investigation into who might have been helping Young remain free for seven years.
"But generally, if someone were helping someone else remain a fugitive, they could be criminally prosecuted for their actions," he said.
A telephone message left at the offices of the Animal Liberation Front in Canoga Park, Calif., was not immediately returned Tuesday.
Young was found guilty in 1996 in Multnomah County, Ore., on a criminal trespassing charge, according to court records. He was ordered to pay a $174 fine. Young was also found guilty in 1997 of third-degree theft and "malicious mischief" after arrests in his hometown of Mercer Island, Wash. He was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and sentenced to a year in jail on the first charge. The second charge brought a fine of $1,000 and a 90-day jail sentence, according to court records.
what'cha gonna do when they come for you?
Thank God....may he be the first of many who are arrested.
Ooooh. This little sh*t's going straight to holding in the general county jail population.
No doubt this detail will be left out by the MSM. 27-year-olds thieving music CDs is pathetic. He's a criminal with or without his PETA/ALF activities.
he might be in a hurts, the only lawyer that could get him off scot free died today
It's OK, just as long as he didn't download the music he stole.
ROFL!
I bet he is also tied in with the mink "freeing" in Snohomish County,WA. While I was away in Palm Springs my neighbor had to shoot one after it killed 3 chickens, The Bastard!
Most of those mink probably died from starvation. But we now know (courtesy the NYT and all the experts on Terri Shiavo) that it is a painless, euphoric death, so it's OK, not cruel at all!
C'mon they gotta be kidding! Leno couldn't make this up.
Too bad, so sad...
Good. We want him back here in Wisconsin ASAP.
Good. We want him back here in Wisconsin ASAP.
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I hear ya. make him a test subject, eh? ;-).
Wis. Professor to Test Stun Guns on Pigs (PETA outraged) ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373415/posts
ALF is a terrorist organization and this country allows it to stay in business. Go figure. Web site, offices, the whole ball of wax. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if they were on the list of charitable organizations getting money from the government.
Seriously, though, we had a big rash of mink releases a few years back. One of them involved ALF setting fire to a feed mill as a diversion while they released hundreds, if not thousands of mink from a mink farm a few miles away. The arson injured a fire fighter, and I'm still very angry about that.
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