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Posted on 05/28/2008 5:38:31 PM PDT by jazusamo
PORTLAND, Ore. – Tre Arrow, a radical environmentalist who was once one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, has announced on his Web site he has accepted a plea deal on federal arson and conspiracy charges. Arrow had entered a not guilty plea. His attorney, Paul T. Loney, confirmed on Wednesday Arrow “is changing his plea” and a hearing date has been set for next Tuesday.
The U.S. Attorney's office in Portland did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Arrow, 34, who has legally changed his name from Michael Scarpitti, is charged in a 14-count federal indictment with helping to destroy concrete-mixing trucks in Portland in April 2001 and of firebombing logging trucks near Oregon's Mount Hood in June 2001.
Arrow became a fugitive after he was indicted, and was arrested in British Columbia in March 2004 on local shoplifting charges. He was extradited to the United States in February.
He said on his Web site he accepted a plea deal because he didn't want to take the risk of “spending the rest of my life in prison.”
His decision to accept a deal comes as federal officials have been scoring high-profile victories against radical environmentalists who have carried out arson attacks around the West.
Earlier this month in Sacramento, environmental activist Eric McDavid was sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison for conspiring to destroy a Northern California dam, a genetics lab and other targets. McDavid was convicted in March for masterminding what FBI agents described as an eco-terrorist plot in the name of the Earth Liberation Front.
In Seattle, Briana Waters is awaiting a May 30 sentencing after she was convicted of arson in a 2001 attack on a plant research center.
Last year in Oregon 10 other radicals were given prison sentences of up to 13 years for arson and other crimes claimed by the Earth Liberation Front and by the Animal Liberation Front from 1996 to 2001.
On his Web site, Arrow insisted that in accepting a plea agreement “I am in no way selling my soul just to receive a sweet deal from the prosecution. By this I mean I am not giving them any information about anyone or any thing which could lead to others being prosecuted.”
Arrow said he was offered “a deal I couldn't refuse, which takes into account the time I served in Canada.”
Wait, I think you’re right. He had two accomplices that went to trial if I remember right. I was thinking of the Family group.
BO, that stinks.
I think he needs a little water boarding and other methods of persuasion. I do not understand his lenient sentence if he is not cooperating. Perhaps his message on the website is a ploy. He is a committed enviroMarxist.
BO as POTUS could cause tons of problems.
Many that we have not even though of yet.
The reason he was in jail in Canuckistan was because he was fighting extradition on these charges. Now that he’s wasted all of this time playing Enviro-Hero, he folds and pleads guilty.
I think he should get at least a year for annoying the Courts, and a few more for Interstate Flight to Avoid Prosecution.
If his sentence is comparable to the sentences of the ones last year he should end up getting somewhere between eight and thirteen years minus the four already served.
I believe those sentences were too light and if his is less than that it won’t send much of a message to the terrorist wanabes, the eco fruits and nuts have to be discouraged.
When this guy pleads guilty, we have to wonder how much data they have on these green eco terrorists.
Also, how many other eco terrorists will Tre take down with him when he rolled over.
“It was probably on FOX News that I heard the FBI considers “enviro-
terrorists” the second-most domestic threat.
Right behind Islamic terrorists (well, if the FBI is still allowed
to call Islamic terrorists “Islamics”!)”
What a differnce GW and 7+ years have made.
Jake Reno and her Clintoon bosses refused to investigate the Eco Terrorists. White Christians with a positive military background were more enemies in their eyes than the Islamofascists and their brothers the Green Eco Terrorists.
Many of our Freepers were watched and monitored during the Klamath Lake episode years ago as possible criminals for daring to expose the Greenies love for an ugly fish to put the local farmers and ranchers out of their evil farming and ranching businesses. No one monitored or reported on the Green Eco Terrorists posing as enviros besides Freepers.
If Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas becomes president, we will go back on the government watch list and the green eco terrorist will free to do their acts economic terrorism
Let’s go “waterboarding”!
Excellent call, but perish the thought!!!
I don't know why they were tailing some of us! We were just obeying the Hippie/Dippie protest everything commandment of the seventies..."QUESTION AUTHORITY!"
Our government(s) have become so thoroughly infiltrated and infected with these GovernMental EnvironMentalists that it's only right that we take every opportunity from now on to... "QUESTION AUTHORITY!"
They're all just like Obamanation in that all you have to be to become a GovernMental EnvironMentalist is to get yourself rubber-stamped in your forehead and on your assinine self "EnvironMentalist" and then nail down a GovernMental job in one of our multi-level governments!!!
Here's hoping the Enviro has a good time receiving in the slam.
Yes! He should be open to it and open minded about it!!!
I also think that 'I didn't roll over on anybody' is a load of BS. Once the prosecutors and his attorney explained that this creep was looking at spending the rest of his life in Marion if he didn't cooperate, he sang like a canary.
Watch for more indictments and arrests. It's also highly likely this turd explained their comms in great detail to the Feds.
Hopefully they'll round up the rest of this gang very soon.
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The only reason these little misfits change their names is to take to shame off Momma. I howled with joy when I read he had been caught shoplifting in BC...
I head it on the radio in a PSA put out by the FBI...
That sounds vaguely familiar ~ truthfully; I don’t watch local news or read the local paper.
I do know that Eugene has many of these tree hugging, root sucking freaks. >:-}
I’ve heard Waters’ sentencing got pushed back to Monday. Prosecutors are asking for 10 years, defense attorneys are asking for 18 months.
10-year prison sentence sought in UW horticulture center arson (WA)
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