Chelsea Dawn Gerlach

Chelsea Dawn Gerlach (born 1977) is an American radical environmentalist associated with the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front.^[1]

Biography

Gerlach was arrested in Portland, Oregon, on December 7, 2005, in Operation Backfire. On July 21, 2006, she pleaded guilty to three counts of arson. The fires were at Childer's Meat Company, Boise Cascade and an EPD substation. She was also charged with eight counts of aiding and abetting arson in 1998 at Vail Ski Resort in Colorado.^[2] The fires also burned down the ski patrol headquarters and several lift buildings. On May 25, 2007 she was sentenced to nine years in prison.^[3] She is serving her sentence at a federal prison.

References

1. ^ Yardley, William (May 26, 2007). "Radical Environmentalist Gets 9-Year Term". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/us/26sentence.html. Retrieved 24 May 2007. "Judge Aiken sentenced Ms. Gerlach to nine years in prison for her role in “the family,” a group of at least 10 radical environmentalists who have been convicted of arson and other destructive actions at an electrical transmission tower; timber research centers; a Eugene police station; a ski resort in Vail, Colo.; and other sites in five Western states that they viewed as threats to the environment or their mission." 
2. ^ "'Prime suspect' named in Two Elk fire". Associated Press in Vail Daily. December 14, 2005. http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20051214/NEWS/51213008. Retrieved 14 February 2007. "A 28-year-old woman was called a ‘prime suspect’ in the arson attack that destroyed the Two Elk restaurant and damaged nearby chairlifts on Vail Mountain in 1998." 
3. ^ "Support Chelsea". http://www.supportchelsea.org/. Retrieved 24 May 2007. 

External links

• Bureau of Prisons Website showing Gerlach's current location and status of imprisonment
• Portrait photo of Gerlach

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