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| Calif. man jailed in eco-terrorism plot |
| 2008-05-09 |
| The mastermind of a plot to firebomb buildings in the name of radical environmentalism was sentenced to 19 years and 7 months in prison yesterday, clearing the way for a 22-year-old Pound Ridge woman who was part of the same eco-terrorist cell to be sentenced next week. Eric McDavid, 30, of Foresthill, Calif., was convicted by a federal jury in March of conspiracy to firebomb property and faced a maximum 20 years in prison. Meanwhile his one-time comrade, Lauren Weiner, a 2004 Fox Lane High School graduate, has been waiting for his sentencing so that she could also be sentenced. Weiner, who was arrested on the same conspiracy charge as McDavid along with a third man in 2006, agreed to testify against McDavid in exchange for a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Weiner has been free on $1 million bail and living in Pound Ridge with her mother for the past two years. On Thursday, she will be sentenced for her role in the conspiracy to blow up targets that included the Nimbus Dam, the U.S. Forest Service's Institute of Forest Genetics, both east of Sacramento, as well cell phone towers and other targets. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 Excellent! Resist the system, man! When he gets out in 20 years, he can wonder at how the world changed and how his Cause[tm] has long been left by the wayside. |
| Posted by: gromky 2008-05-09 20:34 |