As reported today on SignOnSanDiego.com (The San Diego Tribune website), a federal judge in San Diego has sentenced Stanislas Meyerhoff, one of ten ecoterrorists facing criminal charges, to 13 years in prison for participation in a string of arsons and other property-related crimes:
Meyerhoff, 29, has admitted to being a member of a Eugene cell of the Earth Liberation Front known as The Family, responsible for more than 20 arson fires from 1996 through 2001 in five Western states that did $40 million in damage. Meyerhoff was involved in fires at a Eugene police substation, a Eugene SUV dealer, an Oregon tree farm, federal wild horse corrals in Wyoming and Northern California, and a ski resort in Vail, Colo. He also helped topple a high-voltage transmission line tower in Oregon.
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