Kendall Tankersley (left) with her partner H.E. Martel at an International AIDS Candlelight Memorial in Tuscon.
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.
Kendall Tankersley (left) with her partner H.E. Martel at an International AIDS Candlelight Memorial in Tuscon.
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Or semaphore!
Good to hear, but why is one of the keywords for this article "Homosexual agenda"?
I think it's a reflex action around here these days.
WHY?
Inbreeding does cause that..
Ugh. I deny any relation (thank the Lord). Is that a man or woman?
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?
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