Joseph Dibee, former international fugitive and supporter of the Earth Liberation and the Animal Liberation Fronts, got a shorter sentence than his co-defendants, raising questions about how the federal government prosecutes what it considers acts of domestic terrorism
Eco-activist involved in 1997 arson at Redmond horse slaughterhouse gets community service, no prison time ktvz.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ktvz.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Joseph Dibee, a former supporter of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, to time served and could be ordered him to pay his portion of $1.3 million in restitution. In April, Dibee pleaded guilty to the 1997 arson of Cavel West, a slaughterhouse in central Oregon that butchered wild horses as well as the 2001 arson of a Bureau of Land Management wild horse coral in Litchfield, California. Dibee was arrested in 2018 and spent 29 months in pretrial custody.
As eco-saboteur Joseph Dibee awaits sentencing, his lawyer Wednesday urged a judge to order the government to produce any videos of his arrest in Havana, Cuba, any communications between the
This year, one of the last fugitives of the Earth Liberation Front pleaded guilty to arson at a moment when climate activists are again flirting with radical ideas.