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Eco-Terrorism Suspects To Enter Pleas In Court ( ELF and ALF Arsonists )
The Associated Press ^ | September 28, 2006 | The Associated Press

Posted on 10/01/2006 8:02:53 AM PDT by george76

1998 Fires At Vail Ski Resort Cost $12 Million In Damage.

Two people accused of setting the 1998 fire at the Vail ski resort will be sentenced in December on eight counts of arson stemming from the blaze that caused some $12 million in damage.

Chelsea Gerlach and Stanislas Meyerhoff, both 29, were arraigned Wednesday in federal court in Eugene. They are to enter pleas and be sentenced on Dec. 14, when they are also to be sentenced for other arson-related crimes to which they pleaded guilty in July.

Under plea deals, both agreed to have the Colorado charges transferred to Oregon to be settled along with their other arson cases.

The Vail crimes focused national attention on radical environmentalists who credited their attacks to the secretive Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front. The Vail fires are one of 18 separate attacks charged to a group of 13 people between 1996 and 2001.

Meyerhoff, who renounced ELF, earlier pleaded guilty to 54 charges related to seven separate attacks in a plea deal for a recommendation from federal prosecutors that he be sentenced to 15 years and eight months, according to court records.

As part of his deal, authorities in Michigan, Arizona, Washington, Wyoming and California will not prosecute potential cases against him, court records showed.

Gerlach pleaded guilty to 18 charges in five separate attacks. She has apologized for the harm and fear created by her actions, which she said were motivated by "a deep sense of despair and anger at the deteriorating state of the global environment."

Prosecutors have recommended Gerlach get a 10-year sentence. Authorities in Wyoming, Washington and California agreed not to pursue potential cases against Gerlach, according to court records.

Of the 13 defendants, six have pleaded guilty, four face trial and three are fugitives.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Idaho; US: Michigan; US: Oregon; US: Washington; US: Wyoming; War on Terror
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To: NaughtiusMaximus

                                               Kendall Tankersley (left) with her partner H.E. Martel at an International AIDS Candlelight Memorial in Tuscon.

21 posted on 10/01/2006 9:22:25 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Captainpaintball

Hell, it's a face for Morse Code transmissions!

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22 posted on 10/01/2006 9:52:43 AM PDT by GAB-1955 (being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
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To: GAB-1955

Or semaphore!

23 posted on 10/01/2006 9:54:57 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Dancing through life like a street mime with tourettes syndrome.)
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To: george76

Good to hear, but why is one of the keywords for this article "Homosexual agenda"?


24 posted on 10/01/2006 10:13:47 AM PDT by Chewie84
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To: george76
Will they be treated as the real terrorists they are? I love how the media use the cute euphemism "ecoterrorist" so as to blunt the evilness of their actions.
25 posted on 10/01/2006 1:15:05 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Support Arnold-McClintock or embrace high taxes, gay weddings with Angelides.)
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To: Chewie84
why is one of the keywords for this article "Homosexual agenda"?

I think it's a reflex action around here these days.

26 posted on 10/01/2006 1:21:33 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Support Arnold-McClintock or embrace high taxes, gay weddings with Angelides.)
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To: george76
Authorities in Wyoming, Washington and California agreed not to pursue potential cases against Gerlach, according to court records.

WHY?

27 posted on 10/01/2006 1:23:25 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Support Arnold-McClintock or embrace high taxes, gay weddings with Angelides.)
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To: Peter J. Huss
Ms. Rubin, who is still on the run, may have shaved her mustache in an attempt to improve ... I mean... change her appearance.

Inbreeding does cause that..

28 posted on 10/01/2006 7:31:12 PM PDT by BerniesFriend
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To: george76

Ugh. I deny any relation (thank the Lord). Is that a man or woman?


29 posted on 10/01/2006 7:33:15 PM PDT by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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To: george76
This is taking a long time.

Just like trials for muskie terrorists, they just drag on and on and on and on and on. Why should we expect anything different in these cases?

30 posted on 10/01/2006 8:12:56 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: george76

and


31 posted on 10/02/2006 7:11:26 AM PDT by xsmommy
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