Three weeks later, the Earth Liberation Front issued a communique claiming credit for the crime on behalf of a previously unknown group called "Revenge of the Trees." on May 7, 2000, a fire ripped through the headquarters of Holbrook Inc., an Olympia timber company. For that purpose, said Paul Watson, they rented a Penske truck.Ībout 2:30 a.m.
In May 2000, the Watsons were hauling equipment between the Southern California office of Paul Watson's Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and the organization's office in Friday Harbor. Yesterday demonstrators from some of those groups gathered outside the federal courthouse in Seattle to protest what they believe are repressive tactics of government investigators.
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To date, the bureau has cracked few cases involving the Animal Liberation Front or the Earth Liberation Front because the groups work in small, well-disciplined cells that communicate with others through secure Internet channels.īut to crack more cases, federal investigators are focusing on members of environmental and animal-rights groups outside the mainstream who claim they don't participate in violence such as arson and vandalism. The government's case laid out in Special Agent Fernando Gutierrez's complaint reveals how the FBI is working to find the perpetrators of such actions as the 2001 firebombing of the Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington. She is the wife of Paul Watson, most well-known in Washington state for leading the protests in 1999 when the Makah Tribe resumed hunting gray whales. Led into the courtroom in shackles, Watson was released without having to post a cash bond pending a preliminary hearing next month.
Watson faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if she is convicted on the charge of making a false statement to the grand jury. The complaint against Allison Lance Watson provides a rare window into the FBI's efforts to dismantle the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front, which the bureau considers to be among the greatest domestic terrorism threats facing the nation. Case shines light on FBI's efforts to dismantle liberation frontsĪn agent with the FBI's domestic terrorism squad arrested an animal rights activist yesterday for allegedly lying to a Seattle federal grand jury investigating an arson attack on an Olympia forest-product company.
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