Eco-Activist Jailed for Torching Logging Trucks
by Associated Press
Log Trucker-September 2008
A federal judge in Oregon has sentenced environmental activist Tre Arrow to prison for torching logging trucks as a protest against a timber sale.
Arrow was given 6 1/2 years in prison minus credit for time served since he was arrested in Canada in 2004.
Arrow is a well-known figure in the Pacific Northwest environmental movement. He once ran for Congress and spent 11 days sitting on a narrow window ledge at the U.S. Forest Service in 2000.
At the sentencing hearing in August, Arrow told the packed courtroom he did not consider himself a danger to the public or in need of rehabilitation.
"My heart and my passion lie in being the person I feel is true to a higher power," he said. "I will continue to be that person through music and peaceful actions."
Prosecutors, however, said after the hearing that Arrow had come clean only after spending years denying the allegations made by his co-defendants that he was involved in the firebombings.Home Contents