[ SHOWGSD-L ] More On The Storm
- From: "RivendellP" <rivendellp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-l" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 05:50:43 -0700
"Listers"...
I took this off of the Court TV web site. This is in reference to an ELF/ALF
fire bombing in Vail in 98 but it shows you what the more radical ARO's will do.
Four indicted in alleged ecoterrorism firebombing at Vail ski resort
DENVER (AP) - A federal grand jury has indicted four people in a 1998
firebombing at the Vail ski resort that caused an estimated $12 million in
damage, one of the most devastating ecoterrorism attacks in U.S. history.
Two of the suspects, Chelsea Gerlach, 29, and Stanislas Meyerhoff, 28, are in
custody in Oregon facing arson charges in separate cases, prosecutors said
Friday.
The whereabouts of the other two, Josephine Sunshine Overaker, 31, and Rebecca
J. Rubin, 33, are unknown, U.S. attorney's spokesman Jeff Dorschner said.
Prosecutors did not immediately return calls seeking more details.
The indictment, handed up late Thursday, accuses the four of setting fire to a
lodge, two restaurants and at least five other buildings.
A shadowy underground group calling itself the Earth Liberation Front claimed
responsibility for the fire, claiming it targeted the resort 100 miles west of
Denver because it was expanding into potential habitat of the lynx, an
endangered cat.
Authorities have blamed ELF for economic sabotage across the country that has
caused tens of millions of dollars in damage. The FBI describes the group as
one of the nation's leading domestic terrorist organizations but ELF contends
that harming people is not its intention.
Authorities had earlier said Gerlach was a prime suspect in the case. Her
family said they believe she is innocent.
At the time of the Vail fires, authorities said they had at least 100 suspects.
The first big break came in 2000, when a hunter found four five-gallon gas cans
hidden under some broken branches in the White River National Forest just
outside the ski area.
Officials with Vail Resorts Inc. did not immediately return calls.
Gerlach and Meyerhoff had both been indicted in Portland, Ore., in December.
Gerlach was accused in the toppling of an 80-foot electrical transmission tower
in December 1999 and in a fire that year at an Oregon meat company. Meyerhoff
was accused of setting fire to a lumber company and a tree farm in the state in
2001.
Overaker was indicted in January on federal charges stemming from fires at two
ranger stations, a lumber company office and a meat company in Oregon. She is
also accused in the toppling of the transmission tower in 1999.
Rubin was indicted in January in connection with fires at a lumber office in
Oregon and wild horse facilities in Wyoming and California.
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