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Posted on 12/14/2005 7:58:43 AM PST by george76
A woman charged with damaging a transmission tower also is suspected in half a dozen other ecoterror crimes, including a firebombing at a Colorado ski resort, one of the costliest such crimes in the U.S.
Chelsea Gerlach was ordered held without bail after Assistant U.S. Attorney Kirk Engdahl made the allegations against her.
Gerlach, 28, was among six people arrested in five states last week on indictments alleging they set fires and damaged property between 1998 and 2001 in Oregon and Washington.
The Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front took responsibility for most of the crimes.
Gerlach, of Portland, is charged with helping two others topple a Bonneville Power Administration high-tension line 25 miles east of Bend in 1999.
Engdahl said he will present evidence to a grand jury Wednesday seeking indictments against Gerlach in a 1999 meatpacking fire in Eugene and a 2001 firebombing at a tree farm in Clatskanie.
The prosecutor also said Gerlach is suspected in the 1998 firebombing of the ski resort at Vail, Colo.
Four buildings and four chairlifts at the top of the mountain were damaged or destroyed, and damages were set at $12 million.
a 1998 attempted arson at Bureau of Land Management wild horse corrals in Rock Springs, Wyo.; a 1999 the arson at a Boise Cascade office in Monmouth, Ore.;
and a 2001 firebombing of a University of Washington horticultural research center in Seattle.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
In a statement, Gerlach's family said they believe she is innocent.
"The person we know and love is incapable of such acts," the statement said. "We are all dedicated to keeping a constant watch to make sure that she is treated fairly and with respect, so that her innocence will not be clouded by the fear-inspiring and unfounded labels of 'terrorist.'"
If she's in keeping with the tree hugger, anti male, anti-war, anti U.S. stereotype, don't post any pictures.
Fat eco-freak.
Get the electrodes.
Let's show 'em what real torture is.
At least let's get that smirk off her face.
Arrrrghhhhhhhhhh! Too late!
Maybe Billy Jack will show up with a big crowd of teenagers and spring her.
Yummy!
I gave life my best shot, but in the end I could'nt overcome my destiny to save the world from humans.
The Earth Liberation Front
— an underground group that advocates economic sabotage to stop what they say is environmental destruction — claimed responsibility for the firebombing, saying it did so “on behalf of lynx” threatened by Vail Resorts’ expansion into Blue Sky Basin.
“Even though the arson was seven years ago, we’re very encouraged that the authorities continue to show interest in this case,” Vail Resorts chief executive Adam Aron said Tuesday night.
Damage from the 1998 attack on Vail Mountain is estimated to have been about $12 million.
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20051213/NEWS/51213008
Too late.
By a scant 2+ minutes.
A seventh person remains at large, perhaps in Germany, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kirk Engdahl said Tuesday.
Gerlach is also a prime suspect in five other cases, said Engdahl, who made the allegation against her during a bail hearing in U.S. District Court.
Judge Thomas Coffin ordered Gerlach held without bail, pending the outcome of Wednesday’s grand jury session.
In arguing that she be held without bail, Engdahl said Gerlach had a boyfriend who was an illegal alien from Canada, and is a prime suspect in five other cases.
“The attack on Vail Mountain backfired,” he said. “It was just dumb.”
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20051213/NEWS/51213008
More news on this Terrorist Scum...
I think she got hit by the ugly stick in her childhood, and she never let up!
She looks like she will enjoy jail.
:-)
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