(RNS) Martha Hennessy, 66, the granddaughter of Catholic Worker Movement founder Dorothy Day, and Carmen Trotta, 58, a Catholic worker at St. Joseph House in New York City, were released after serving six months in prison for breaking into a nuclear submarine base.
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Last defendant in 2018 trespass of Georgia submarine base is sentenced The Associated Press Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay (Navy via Wikimedia Commons) BRUNSWICK, Ga. The seventh and final defendant found guilty of illegal entry and vandalism of a Navy base in Georgia in 2018 has been sentenced in the case. U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood sentenced Mark Peter Colville, 59, of New Haven, Connecticut, on Friday to 21 months in federal prison and ordered him to pay $33,503 in restitution, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia David H. Estes said in a news release. Colville and six others were found guilty in October 2019 on charges of conspiracy, destruction of property on a naval installation, depredation of government property and trespass.
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The Kings Bay Plowshares 7. From left to right: Elizabeth McAlister, Stephen Kelly, Carmen Trotta, Mark Colville, Martha Hennessy, Clare Grady and Patrick O’Neill. Photo courtesy of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
(RNS) The seventh and final Catholic peace activist, who three years ago broke into the King’s Bay Naval Base in Georgia to symbolically disarm its stockpile of nuclear weapons, was sentenced Friday (April 9) to 21 months in prison.
Mark Colville, who runs Amistad Catholic Worker in New Haven, Connecticut, was part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who cut a padlock, and later a security fence, at the naval base on April 4, 2018. The group prayed, spilled blood on a Navy wall insignia, spray-painted anti-war slogans on a walkway and banged on a monument to nuclear warfare all in protest of nuclear weapons, which the group says are illegal by international law.