Posted on 07/19/2005 7:40:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - An animal rights activist who dodged federal authorities for years was moved to a more secure cell after he was sent what might be an escape plan in the mail, authorities said Tuesday.
Sheriff's deputies said they intercepted a drawing of a courtroom marked "escape route" in Peter Daniel Young's mail July 6. They moved him from a medium security dormitory to the Dane County Jail the same day, sheriff's spokeswoman Elise Schaffer said.
The drawing was vague and didn't seem to represent any specific courtroom, Schaffer said, but "it was seen as a possible security issue."
Young is scheduled to appear in federal court next Wednesday for a pretrial conference.
His attorney, Chris Kelly, said the transfer wasn't necessary and the whole incident has been exaggerated. Young never asked for or received the drawing, he said.
"Peter didn't plan to escape," Kelly said.
Prosecutors believe Young, 27, is part of the Animal Liberation Front, a group that aims to destroy animal-related industries. Young and an accomplice are accused of freeing more than 7,000 mink from their cages at five farms in Iowa, South Dakota and Wisconsin in 1997.
Authorities found the accomplice two years later and he agreed to cooperate in exchange for a two-year prison sentence.
Young managed to elude investigators until March, when he was arrested for shoplifting CDs in San Jose, Calif.
He was extradited to Madison in May. He has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges against him.
Young technically is in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. Kirk Papenthien, chief deputy of the marshals' Madison office, said he couldn't comment on the drawing or whether marshals were investigating who sent it.
You beat me by 1 second.
hey, you can't snooze around here!
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Oh yeah!
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ROTF! They put him in a bigger cage! That's what he gets for acting like an animal!!! LOL
I was thinking about filling his cell with really hungry rats. Teach the idiot a little about nature.
Not only is he a dumb@$$, he is stupid too.
Hopefully they won't move him to the Atlanta jail.
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