Posted on 01/19/2006 5:02:55 PM PST by george76
After a delay of nearly a month, a Flagstaff woman accused of being connected with the 1998 firebombing of a logging company in Oregon has been released from jail.
Kendall Tankersley, 28, also known as Sarah Harvey, was released from an Oregon jail Jan. 10 on $150,000 bond.
She is back in Flagstaff, ready to begin taking two classes at Northern Arizona University.
Tankersley, a former employee at the university, was indicted in November by a federal grand jury in Oregon.
She is accused of attempted arson and arson, acting as a lookout, in connection with a fire at U.S. Forest Industries in Medford, Ore., in December 1998.
The fire caused an estimated $500,000 in damage.
She has been accused by prosecutors of being a member of the Earth Liberation Front at the time of the arson. She was one of six people arrested around the country in connection with acts of ecoterrorism.
She is scheduled to undergo an arraignment in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Ore., on Monday.
Aspey ordered Tankersley to be released to her domestic partner, who lives and works in Flagstaff.
Tankersley has a degree in molecular biology and has worked for Planned Parenthood ...
(Excerpt) Read more at azdailysun.com ...
See? You don't have to do that much to get on it.
I see where you are coming from, and it is a difficult situation WRT civil rights, however the only thing that article really states is that a group is being spied on. My question is who are the top members connected to? Have they made statements that would require them to be investigated. For instance, PeTA and Greenpeace were under surveillance too, and in the past they have publicly given money to arsonists.
There are many unknowns.
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