[Ppnews] FBI arrests Earth Liberation Front suspect in Olympia

[Political Prisoner News]

<http://midwestgreenscare.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/rhinelander-indictment/>Rhinelander 
Indictment, Arraignment Dates

July 27, 2008

Here is the 
<http://midwestgreenscare.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/rhinelander-indictment.pdf>Rhinelander 
Indictment of Katherine Christianson, Bryan 
Rivera, and Aaron Ellringer. It names Daniel 
McGowan as a currently unindicted coconspirator- 
the indictment comes out of the Grand Jury he 
recently refused to cooperate with- as well as 
known snitch Ian Wallace.  Additionally, it 
refers to other participant individuals “known and unknown to the Grand Jury.”

We have also learned that both Christianson and 
Ellringer will be arraigned in Madison this Tuesday, July 29, at 10:00 a.m.

Please pass this information on as far and wide as possible.

http://www.midwestgreenscare.org/



<http://midwestgreenscare.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/new-elf-indictments-in-wisconsin/>New 
ELF Indictments in 
<http://midwestgreenscare.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/new-elf-indictments-in-wisconsin/>Wisconsin

July 25, 2008

According to an article from today’s “the 
Olympian,” 
<http://www.theolympian.com/672/story/519575.html>http://www.theolympian.com/672/story/519575.html, 
Bryan Rivera, a.k.a Bryan Lefey, a.k.a. “Rat 
Dog,” was arrested Wednesday on charges relating 
to a July 2000 Earth Liberation Front action at 
the U.S. Forest Service Facility in Rhinelander, 
WI, where genetic research was being conducted on trees.

The charges stem from an unsealed indictment out 
of the Western District of Michigan, which also 
names Katherine Christianson as an alleged co-conspirator.

Daniel McGowan is currently being held in civil 
contempt for refusing to cooperate with a Grand 
Jury in Wisconsin’s Western District.. For more 
info on Daniel’s situation, see 
<http://www.supportdaniel.org>http://www.supportdaniel.org.

EWOK! is currently looking into this and will 
release more information as we have it. If you 
have ANY info, please contact us at 
fightthegreenscare at riseup.net. If you have been 
visited, subpoenaed or arrested in relation to 
the Green Scare, you should call the NLG Green Scare Hotline, 1-888-NLG-ECOL.

Remember: Do NOT talk to law enforcement, whether 
or not you are facing criminal charges. There is 
nothing to gain and mountains to lose by doing 
so. We and many others are available and ready to 
offer support to all non-cooperating State repression.

-EWOK! (Earth Warriors are OK!), Minneapolis



FBI arrests Earth Liberation Front suspect in Olympia

<http://www.theolympian.com/672/story/519575.html>http://www.theolympian.com/672/story/519575.html

By Jeremy Pawloski | The Olympian • Published July 25, 2008

An alleged Earth Liberation Front member was 
arrested by FBI agents at an Olympia residence 
Wednesday morning, and is charged with causing 
$500,000 worth of damage to research trees at a 
U.S. Forest Service facility in Rhinelander, 
Wisc. in July 2000, court papers state.

Bryan Rivera, a.k.a Bryan Lefey, a.k.a. "Rat 
Dog," is charged in an unsealed federal 
indictment filed in the Western District of 
Wisconsin with one count each of depredation of 
government property in excess of $500 and 
depredation of government property in excess of $1,000.

An official at the Federal Public Defender in 
Tacoma confirmed today that Rivera was being held 
at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac.

FBI agents served Rivera, 31, with an arrest 
warrant at his home in the 500 block of East Bay 
Drive Wednesday morning, Robbie Burroughs, an FBI 
spokesman, confirmed Thursday. The spokesman 
would not release details on the charges until today.

According to the indictment: in July 2000, Rivera 
and two other suspects conspired to damage trees 
at the Rhinelander facility using " 'etching 
cream, saws, scraping tools and other items."

"The conspirators believed that the U.S. Forest 
Service Facility in Rhinelander was an 
appropriate target for direct action because the 
facility was performing a genetic research 
project on trees," reads the indictment. "The 
conspirators decided to do the attack in 
combination with their planned protests at the 
International Society of Animal Geneticists (ISAG 
protests) occurring in late July of 2000 in Minneapolis, Minn."

In addition to damaging 500 trees at the 
facility, the group also used spray paint and 
etching cream to damage U.S. Forest Service 
vehicles with references to ELF, the indictment states.

After the vandalism, alleged co-conspirator 
Katherine Christianson, along with a man not 
named as a defendant in the indictment, sent a 
communique on behalf of ELF. "The communique 
ended with the words: ‘We are everywhere and we 
are nowhere and we are watching. For wildness and 
an end to industrial society.’ It was signed ‘ELF 
Earth Liberation Front," reads the indictment.

For more on this story, read Saturday’s edition of The Olympian.




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