Two Women Charged with Offenses Related to Pipeline Attacks

USAO - Iowa ^ | October 2, 2019 | Staff

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DES MOINES, Iowa – On September 19, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an Indictment charging defendants, Jessica Rae Reznicek and Ruby Katherine Montoya, with one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility, four counts of use of fire in the commission of a felony, and four counts of malicious use of fire, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Montoya was recently arrested in the District of Arizona and detained pending court proceedings to determine her appearance in the Southern District of Iowa. Reznicek appeared in Des Moines on October 1, 2019 and was conditionally released pending trial. Trial is currently scheduled for December 2, 2019, before United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger.

According to Count 1 of the Indictment, from at least as early as 2016 and continuing in 2017, in the Southern District of Iowa and elsewhere, Reznicek and Montoya conspired to knowingly and willfully damage and attempt to damage the property of an energy facility involved in the transmission and distribution of fuel, or another form or source of energy, in an amount exceeding or which would have exceeded $100,000, and to cause a significant interruption and impairment of a function of an energy facility.

Counts 2 through 9 of the Indictment allege specific instances of damage or attempts to damage portions of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the Southern District of Iowa by Reznicek and Montoya on various dates in 2017.

The public is reminded that an Indictment is merely an accusation, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless they are proven guilty.

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Two years ago I wrote about these two Dakota Access Pipeline vandals, noting they were stooges for a radical group known as Rising Tide North America, which was funded by the Levinson Foundation and the Tides Foundation. I later pointed out the largest single funder of the Tides Foundation was another foundation created by Warren Buffett’s family. Buffett, of course, is a railroad magnate who has been shipping Bakken oil by train, so fighting pipelines is very much in his economic interests. He is an enabler of these Dakota Access Pipeline vandals, who it appears, could really face some time in prison for their exploits on his behalf. . .Meanwhile, though, take note of the opening statement that they “willfully and knowingly conspired and agreed … with other persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury.” Presumably, this refers to their relationship to Rising Tide North America, which acted as their spokesperson back when they were first arrested. It is funded by the Levinson and Tides Foundation. Rising Tide’s funds were funneled through a murky group called Media Island International: Dakota Access Pipeline Vandals Indicted by Federal Grand Jury!