Posted on 12/22/2005 8:17:09 PM PST by stocksthatgoup
PHOENIX (AP) -- An Arizona bookstore owner charged in the firebombing of a government wildlife lab in Washington committed suicide in his jail cell Thursday, officials said.
William C. Rodgers, 40, of Prescott, Ariz., suffocated after placing a plastic bag over his head while in a one-person cell in Flagstaff, the Coconino County medical examiner said.
Rodgers was one of six people arrested earlier this month in connection with ecoterror attacks in Oregon and Washington in recent years.
He was accused of setting fire to the Agriculture Department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services facility in Olympia, Wash., in 1998.
Federal court documents last week said Rodgers had been linked to a meeting of Earth Liberation Front members in western Colorado where the firebombing of a Colorado ski resort, one of the costliest ecoterror crimes in the U.S., was planned.
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He saved the taxpayers some time and money.
That was fast.
Plastic? Any self-respecting environmentalist would have used a recycled paper bag. Hypocrite.
Let him feed the trees he loved to hug.
Dammit.
I wanted him killed all legal-like 'n maybe even extra-painful.
I keep waiting for one of these eco-terrorists to fire-bomb Robert Redford's ski resort that has been carved out of the Utah wilderness.
I'm not ready yet to say it was a suicide.
If this POS rolled over and talked about all the things that ELF and other Eco Terrorists had done when he was involved, it would have been an absolute disaster for the ELFs, eco terrorists and a lot of so called enviralists.
YAY!
Sorry again.
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Proving once again that the term 'whacko' is totally appropriate.
Someone should send a thank you card to his estate. "The People thank the estate of Scumbag Ecoterrorist, who saved the taxpayers a boatload of money by killing himself."
Bush knew.
Lets grind him up and serve him to the bastards at Gitmo.
I agree with you. this is not an easy way to kill yourself, the person usually has to also make sure that there is no way for him to remove the bag once he places it on his head - duct tape around the neck for example, or restraining his own hands.
I agree, this is a tough way to kill yourself.
Did you see this ...
Engdall said Gerlach was placed on suicide watch as a result of Rodgers' death because of her close relationship with Rodgers.
Gerlach's attorney, public defender Craig Weinerman, denied the two were close.
Magistrate Thomas Coffin denied Gerlach's request for bail after Engdall said a search of her apartment in Portland on Wednesday had turned up false identification documents with her picture and materials to make others.
The judge said that strongly suggested she might try to flee if released.
In another development in the case, Daniel McGowan of New York City appeared in court in Eugene, Ore., for the first time since his arrest in New York. Coffin set Feb. 28 for the start of his trial on charges he set fire to a lumber mill office in Glendale, Ore., and a tree farm in Clatskanie, Ore.
Jailers in Flagstaff found Rodgers dead shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday, Lt. Charlie Wong said. Lights out at the jail is at 10 p.m., so he could have died anytime during the night, Wong said. He said there had been no indication that Rodgers was depressed or intended to take his own life.
"There was no indication of any distress," Wong said. "He was completely normal."
Another Arizona resident arrested the same day as Rodgers was also being held in the Coconino County jail when he committed suicide.
Sarah Kendall Harvey, a 28-year-old Flagstaff resident also known as Kendall Tankersley, faces charges related to another firebombing. She's accused of arson against a U.S. Forest Industries office building in Medford, Ore., in 1998.
The U.S. Marshals Service picked her up from the jail on Thursday morning. Wong said Rodgers was scheduled to be transferred with her.
http://www.azcentral.com/news//articles/1223Ecoterror-Suicide-ON.html
Damn ~ we didn't get to Hang 'em High ~ Bump!
I am reminded of the old English post-trial announcement that went something along the lines of you have been charged with crimes against God and your Countrymen and been found guilty by your countrymen.
I guess Rodgers ultimate trial to a higher power has already begun.
Merry Bushmas to all of the Eco Terrorists in jail and the hundreds, who will be joining them soon.
*snicker* Your wish is granted, I posted it myself to see what they say about this.
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