By MARY E. O LEARY | The New Haven Register | Published: April 10, 2021 NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Tribune News Service) A longtime anti-war activist from New Haven was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison Friday for his part in vandalizing property at the Kings Bay submarine base three years ago in Georgia. Mark Colville was the last of seven defendants who admitted to illegally entering the naval installation by cutting the padlock and damaging property, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney s Office for the Southern District of Georgia. Mark Colville s sentence brings closure to a prosecution that represents the triumph of the rule of law over misguided principles, Acting U.S. Attorney David H. Estes for the Southern District of Georgia said in a statement.
The seven Catholics known as the Kings Bay Plowshares are seen in early April 2018 before their action that led to federal convictions. (CNS/Kings Bay Plowshares)
Mark Colville, the last of the seven Kings Bay Plowshares anti-nuclear activists to be sentenced, was sentenced April 9 to 21 months in prison by Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Colville and his fellow Catholic activists were convicted in October 2019 of conspiracy, destruction of property on a naval installation, depredation of government property, and trespassing.
Along with the six others who participated in the Kings Bay Plowshares action on the night of April 4, 2018, breaking onto a U.S. Navy submarine base to protest the country s stockpiling of nuclear weapons, Colville was also sentenced to pay over $33,000 in restitution to the U.S. government for damages incurred.
Seventh and final Plowshares member sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
Mark Colville was part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 who broke into a naval base on April 4, 2018. DePaul University in Chicago announced last month it would recognize the group with a Christian nonviolence award. 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
April 9, 2021
(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.
New Haven anti-war activist gets prison for break-in at Navy sub base
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In this file photo, New Haven Police arrest Mark Colville of the Amistad Catholic Worker House at 634 Howard Avenue, a city owned property, a day after the group erected a homeless tent compound in 2014.Peter Casolino / Hearst Connecticut Media file photoShow MoreShow Less
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Mark Colville, right, of the Amistad Catholic Worker House in New Haven, was picked up by Robert Randall and Teresa Grady when he was freed from jail in Brunswick, Ga., in 2019.Teresa Grady / Contributed Photo /Show MoreShow Less
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