[Ppnews] Sacramento - Lauren Weiner Takes Plea and COPS OUT

[Political Prisoner News]

Woman pleads guilty in alleged plot to blow up Forest Service lab
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO

One of three people accused of plotting to blow up a U.S. Forest 
Service genetics lab and other targets pleaded guilty to conspiracy, 
federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

Lauren Weiner, 20, of Pound Ridge, N.Y., agreed to cooperate with 
investigators as part of her plea bargain.

That includes testifying against Eric McDavid, 28, of Foresthill, 
Calif., and Zachary Jenson, 20, of Monroe, Wash. They remain in 
Sacramento County Jail and could face five to 20 years in federal 
prison if they are convicted of conspiring to use fire or explosives 
to damage property.

The three were arrested Jan. 13 as they allegedly bought bomb-making 
materials at a Kmart in Auburn, east of Sacramento.

Three days before their arrests, the three are alleged to have 
scouted the Nimbus Dam and nearby fish hatchery on the American River 
near Sacramento, and the Forest Service's Institute of Forest 
Genetics near Placerville, in the foothills east of Sacramento.

The three planned to act in the name of the Earth Liberation Front, a 
shadowy group of environmental activists, investigators said. 
However, the FBI infiltrated the group with an undercover informant. 
The FBI covertly rented the group a cabin in Dutch Flat, outside 
Auburn, after agents wired the cabin for audio and video surveillance.

Weiner's sentencing is set for Aug. 8. McDavid and Jenson are set for 
court appearances Aug. 15.

Published: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 18:57 PDT



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