{"id":1450822,"date":"2022-04-22T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450822"},"modified":"2022-04-22T16:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T20:15:16","slug":"arsonist-affiliated-with-animal-liberation-front-pleads-guilty-to-bombing-meat-packing-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arsonist-affiliated-with-animal-liberation-front-pleads-guilty-to-bombing-meat-packing-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsonist Affiliated With \u2018Animal Liberation Front\u2019 Pleads Guilty To Bombing Meat Packing Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farsonist-affiliated-with-animal-liberation-front-pleads-guilty-to-bombing-meat-packing-plant%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450822&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232969952-scaled-e1622581512746.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>An environmental extremist pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday for his role in two arson conspiracies targeting animal processing facilities in the Pacific Northwest and California.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/pacific-northwest-environmental-extremist-and-arsonist-pleads-guilty\"><span>press release<\/span><\/a><span> from the Department of Justice, 53-year-old Joseph Mahmoud Dibee \u201cpleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson and arson in the District of Oregon,\u201d as well as \u201cconspiracy to commit arson in the Eastern District of California.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dibee and at least 15 other affiliates of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front \u201cknowingly conspired with one another to damage or destroy various commercial and government-owned properties\u201d between October 1996 and December 2005, the Justice Department said. The conspirators held meetings to plan attacks, conducted research and surveillance, discussed their plans via code words and code names, and built incendiary bombs to destroy the sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDuring their self-described \u2018direct actions,\u2019 the conspirators dressed in dark clothing and wore masks and gloves to disguise their appearances. Some conspirators acted as lookouts while others were responsible for placing, igniting or attempting to ignite the improvised incendiary devices,\u201d the Justice Department described.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In July 1997, Dibee and his partners used the devices to destroy the Cavel West Meat Packing Plant in Redmond, Oregon. In October 2001, Dibee and others tried to destroy Wild Horse Corrals \u2014 a Bureau of Land Management facility near Litchfield, California, that is used to remove wild horses from public lands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following a domestic terrorism investigation from the FBI, Dibee and 11 co-conspirators were indicted in the Eastern District of California and Western District of Washington. They were linked to over 40 criminal acts that amounted to $45 million in damages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dibee, however, had fled the United States in December 2005. Cuban authorities arrested him in 2018, and the U.S. Embassy in Havana returned him to the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dibee \u201chas agreed to pay restitution to his victims as determined by the government and ordered by the court.\u201d The government recommends a sentence of 87 months in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOne of Dibee\u2019s co-conspirators remains at large,\u201d the Justice Department added. \u201cJosephine Sunshine Overaker, an American citizen who is either 47 or 50 years old, is believed to have fled to Europe in late 2001. Overaker faces 19 felony charges including conspiracy to commit arson and destruction of an energy facility, attempted arson, and arson.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNo matter the agenda, using violence to advance a social or political cause is a serious crime. Over a series of years, Mr. Dibee and his co-conspirators caused millions of dollars in damage to commercial and government-owned properties,\u201d Scott Erik Asphaug, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, said in a separate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-or\/pr\/pacific-northwest-environmental-extremist-and-arsonist-pleads-guilty\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cToday, after many years on the run, Mr. Dibee admitted to his role in these schemes and will finally face justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt has taken more than 20 years for Joseph Dibee to face justice. The FBI and our law enforcement partners never gave up,\u201d Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Oregon Kieran Ramsey added. \u201cFrom destroying evidence to fleeing the country, none of Mr. Dibee\u2019s tactics stopped us from making sure he was held accountable for his malicious and destructive actions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. 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