ELF members voice apologies, regrets.Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard Expressing remorse Remorse See also Regret. Ayenbite of Inwit (Remorse of Conscience) Middle English version of medieval moral treatise, c. 1340. [Br. Lit. for their crimes, two key defendants pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and arson for their roles in a secretive se·cre·tive adj. Having or marked by an inclination to secrecy; not open, forthright, or frank. See Synonyms at silent. se cell of environmental radicals charged in a federal investigation of a five-year spree of attacks in five states. A third defendant in the case also pleaded guilty Friday, becoming the sixth to enter plea deals requiring cooperation with the government in prosecuting seven others charged in the conspiracy. The guilty pleas of Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff and Chelsea Dawn Gerlach Chelsea Dawn Gerlach (born in 1977) is a radical environmentalist associated with the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front.[1] She was arrested in Portland, Oregon on December 7, 2005, and on July 21, 2006, she pleaded guilty to three counts of on Friday settle the cases of all of the most prolific arsonists arrested in the alleged conspiracy. Four other defendants await trial. Three others, including one allegedly prolific arsonist, remain fugitives. In a brief statement in court, Meyerhoff, 29, renounced his involvement with the Earth Liberation Front The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is the collective name for anonymous and autonomous individuals or groups that, according to the now defunct Earth Liberation Front Press Office, use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the . In a plea deal for a sentence of 15 years and eight months, he pleaded guilty to 54 charges - including conspiracy and arson related to seven separate attacks. He also will plead guilty to eight arson counts in a separate indictment for an attack at a Vail Vail (vāl), town (1990 pop. 3,569), Eagle co., W central Colo., on Gore Creek, in the Gore Range of the Rocky Mts.; founded as a ski resort 1962, inc. as a town 1966. , Colo., ski resort in 1998 that caused $12 million in damage and focused national attention on radical environmentalists. As part of the deal, authorities in Michigan, Arizona, Washington, Wyoming and California will not prosecute potential cases against him, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. court records. "I walked away from the ELF," Meyerhoff told U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken Ann L. Aiken (born December 29, 1951) is a United States District Court judge for the District of Oregon. Aiken was born in Salem, Oregon and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1974, Rutgers University in 1976, and the University of Oregon School of Law in 1979. on Friday. In a statement issued by his lawyers, Meyerhoff expressed his "deepest apologies" to anyone harmed by his acts. Chelsea Dawn Gerlach, 29, who formerly lived with Meyerhoff, pleaded guilty to 18 charges - including conspiracy and arson in five separate attacks. She also will plead guilty to eight arson charges stemming from her role in the Vail attack. In a statement to Aiken, Gerlach apologized and said it was not her intention to hurt or frighten anyone, although she realizes that is what happened. "These acts were motivated by a deep sense of despair and anger at the deteriorating state of the global environment and the escalating inequities within society," she said. "But I realized years ago this was not an effective or appropriate way to effect positive change. I have taken responsibility for what I have done and will make amends AMENDS. A satisfaction, given by a wrong doer to the party injured for a wrong committed. 1 Lilly's Reg. 81. 2. By statute 24 Geo. II. c. 44, in England, and by similar statutes in some of the United States, justices of the peace, upon being notified of an by being a voice for peace in an increasingly hostile and polarized A one-way direction of a signal or the molecules within a material pointing in one direction. world." Gerlach will get a 10-year sentence under her plea deal, unless her lawyer can persuade Aiken to impose less time. As part of the deal, authorities in Wyoming, Washington and California will not prosecute potential cases against Gerlach, according to court records. The third defendant in court Friday, Suzanne Nicole Savoie, 29, pleaded guilty to 15 charges - including conspiracy and arson - in a deal for a sentence of five years and three months. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kirk Engdall indicated Savoie participated in the conspiracy and served as a driver and lookout on two separate attacks in 2001, one at Superior Lumber Co. in Glendale and another at the Jefferson Poplar Poplar, city, England Poplar, former metropolitan borough, SE England. See Tower Hamlets. poplar, in botany poplar: see willow. Farm in Clatskanie. She was allowed to remain free on $50,000 bail. Meyerhoff and Gerlach admitted to the following attacks: a 1999 arson at the Childers Meat Co. and a 2000 attempted arson on the Eugene Police Department's West University Substation in Eugene; arson at the Boise Cascade Boise Cascade Holdings, LLC, which uses the trade name Boise, is an American pulp and paper company, ranked as the thirteenth largest forest products company in the world. office in Monmouth in 1999; arson at the Jefferson Poplar Farm in Clatskanie in 2001; and sabotage to a power transmission line in Deschutes County in 1999. Meyerhoff also admitted to arson at the former Romania truck dealership in Eugene and at the Superior Lumber Co. in Glendale, both in 2001. Defendants Kevin Tubbs, 37; Darren Todd Thurston, 34; and Kendall Tankersley, 29, pleaded guilty Thursday. Sentencing for all six is scheduled for Dec. 14 in federal court in Eugene. Trial for the other four is scheduled for Oct. 31. |
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