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More indictments in WA!!<br><br>
Two articles. one from Seattle Times and one from Seattle PI.<br><br>
They indicted another person on the UW arson, gave Briana Waters a
<br>
'use of a destructive device' charge [carrying a 30 year mandatory
<br>
minimum] and indicted one person and cooperating witness/informant
<br>
Kevin Tubbs for the Olympia APHIS/ADC arson.<br><br>
It seems that the trend is for each individual state to indict
people <br>
for every incident that took place in their district. i.e. while
<br>
incidents outside of Oregon are named in the conspiracy part of the
<br>
Oregon case, only individual states can indict for the actual <br>
incident. So, Oregon can name incidents like the UW arson or the
Vail <br>
arson in the Oregon conspiracy charges but only Washington State
and <br>
Colorado can actually charge the people. Thus far, we have seen the
<br>
indictment in Oregon, 4 people indicted for the Litchfield Horse
<br>
Corral incident in California, 2 people indicted for the UW
incident <br>
and 2 people indicted for the Olympia incident. Following this
trend <br>
and the use of grand juries in all of these states as well as
Colorado <br>
and Wyoming, you can assume there could be potentially more <br>
indictments soon.<br><br>
thanks for your support,<br>
Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan<br>
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Seattle PI article:<br>
<a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/269946_arson12.html" eudora="autourl">
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/269946_arson12.html<br><br>
</a></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3><b>SEATTLE
POST-INTELLIGENCER<br>
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<a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/269946_arson12.html" eudora="autourl">
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/269946_arson12.html<br><br>
</a><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4><b>3 accused in 2001 UW
arson</b></font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2><b>Indictments come just
before statute of limitations expires<br><br>
</b><i>Friday, May 12, 2006<br><br>
</i><b>By PAUL SHUKOVSKY<br>
</b>P-I REPORTER<br><br>
</font><font size=3>FBI agents and federal prosecutors say they have
solved the 2001 firebombing by suspected ecoterrorists of the Center for
Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington. <br><br>
With just 10 days to spare before the five-year statute of limitations
ran out, authorities obtained a grand jury indictment in U.S. District
Court in Seattle on Thursday that identifies three suspects by name and
refers to two other unnamed conspirators.<br><br>
Accused of torching the center in the May 21, 2001, attack were Briana
Waters, 30, of Berkeley, Calif., Justin Solondz, 26, of Jefferson County
in Washington and William Rodgers, who killed himself in an Arizona jail
after his arrest in December. <br><br>
The indictment accuses the trio, along with two unnamed co-conspirators,
with setting the facility ablaze under the belief that genetically
engineered plants that they considered dangerous to the environment were
being grown there. The fire destroyed years of botanical research. The UW
spent $7 million to rebuild the facility.<br><br>
One of the targeted scientists who worked at the center told the Seattle
P-I that his research into poplar trees did not involve genetically
altering them. Rather, Toby Bradshaw, whose lab was ground zero for the
firebomb, was studying the genetics of hybrid trees that had been created
through standard grafting techniques. <br><br>
He said the most damning irony is that many endangered Northwest plants
that a colleague had been growing at the center for reintroduction into
the wild were destroyed by the fire.<br><br>
Waters had previously been charged in the arson. Thursday's indictment
brings a count of conspiracy to use firebombs to commit a series of
arsons including the one at the UW center against Waters and adds
Solondz, Josephine Overaker, 31, and Kevin Tubbs, 37, as co-conspirators.
<br><br>
Solondz, who is a fugitive and believed to be abroad, allegedly built a
firebomb in Olympia the day before the UW blaze, according to a statement
from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle. Waters is accused of
possessing a firebomb on the day before the UW arson.<br><br>
Overaker also is a fugitive and thought to be out of the
country.<br><br>
The indictment alleges that Rogers and his co-conspirators decided in
2000 to recruit more members and held secret meetings in Washington,
Oregon, California and Arizona, where they decided to focus on fighting
genetic engineering.<br><br>
After selecting targets and providing instruction on how to build
firebombs, Solondz is alleged in July 31, 2000, to have destroyed 5 acres
of canola being grown by the Monsanto Corp. in Dusty in Eastern
Washington.<br><br>
In the winter of 2001, they allegedly held a secret meeting in Olympia
and shortly thereafter, Solondz is alleged to have girdled the bark on
800 hybrid poplar trees at Oregon State University sites.<br><br>
Tubbs and Overaker already have been charged in connection with an
alleged eco-terrorist conspiracy in Oregon. Solondz already has been
indicted in California in connection with the Oct. 22, 2001, arson of a
federal wild horse and burro corral in Susanville, Calif.<br><br>
If convicted, Waters and Solondz face a mandatory minimum term of 35
years behind bars.<br><br>
<br>
<i>P-I reporter Paul Shukovsky can be reached at 206-448-8072 or
paulshukovsky@seattlepi.com.<br><br>
<br><br>
</i>Seattle Times article:<br>
<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/home/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/home/index.html<br>
</a>Friday, May 12, 2006<br><br>
Indictment lists arson at UW, attacks on cropland<br><br>
By Craig Welch<br>
Seattle Times staff reporter<br><br>
Before environmental saboteurs set fire to the University of <br>
Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001, they ravaged
<br>
canola crops in Eastern Washington and sliced open hybrid trees in
<br>
Oregon, according to a new federal indictment released Thursday.<br><br>
The activists had decided a year before to focus on genetically
<br>
engineered crops, and had debated targets during a secret meeting
in <br>
Tucson, Ariz., the indictment filed in U.S. District Court in
Seattle <br>
alleges.<br><br>
Then, sometime before dawn on May 21, 2001, five arsonists
fire-bombed <br>
the UW horticulture center, destroying several endangered plants
along <br>
with it, the indictment charges.<br><br>
Four people, Briana Waters, 30, Justin Solondz, 26, Josephine <br>
Overaker, 31, and Kevin Tubbs, 37, were indicted Wednesday in
crimes <br>
associated with either the UW fire or another arson in Olympia.<br><br>
Before Wednesday, only Waters had been charged specifically in the
UW <br>
fire. The new indictment adds Solondz as an alleged participant in
the <br>
UW fire.<br><br>
That makes three named suspects in that fire. The third, William
<br>
Rodgers, an Arizona bookstore owner, committed suicide in an
Arizona <br>
jail cell in December.<br><br>
Prosecutors say there were five arsonists; the two others have not
<br>
been publicly named.<br><br>
The newest indictment was filed 10 days before a statute of <br>
limitations was to run out on the most serious UW offense use of a
<br>
destructive device in a crime of violence, in this case jugs of
<br>
gasoline hooked up to timers. Waters and Solondz both face that
charge <br>
now.<br><br>
The U.S. Attorney has charged Overaker and Tubbs in connection with
an <br>
Olympia arson, but they have not been specifically charged in the
UW <br>
fire.<br><br>
But all the suspects have been previously charged in connection with
a <br>
string of environmental crimes across the West between 1996 and
2001. <br>
An additional 11 people also have been charged in those crimes,
<br>
ranging from a fire at an Olympia wildlife laboratory, to the
toppling <br>
of an electrical transmission tower in Oregon to a $12 million
arson <br>
at a ski resort in Vail, Colo.<br><br>
The new indictment says Waters, Solondz, Overaker and Tubbs, along
<br>
with Rodgers, set out in early 2000 to recruit more activists to
their <br>
cause, holding a series of clandestine meetings in four states to
<br>
discuss tactics.<br><br>
In one meeting in Santa Cruz, Calif., one conspirator demonstrated
how <br>
to create a fire bomb, prosecutors allege. A few months later, they
<br>
contend, Solondz and others visited a Monsanto canola farm in
Dusty, <br>
Whitman County, and ruined five acres of the crop. The next spring,
<br>
prosecutors allege, Solondz and others cut the bark of 800 hybrid
<br>
poplar trees at three farms in Corvallis, Ore., run by Oregon State
<br>
University.<br><br>
Authorities believe Solondz and Overaker are out of the country.
<br>
Waters is free pending trial. Tubbs is in jail in Oregon awaiting
trial.<br><br>
The horticulture center has since been rebuilt, at a cost of $7
million.<br><br>
Craig Welch: 206-464-2093 or cwelch@seattletimes.com<br><br>
Copyright © 2006 The Seattle Times Company<br><br>
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