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Informant used in arrest of Walter Bond of “To Ashes” fame for “A.L.F. Lone Wolf” arsons
News is emerging, but the FBI has arrested a man in connection with the A.L.F. arson at Sheepskin Factory in Denver, Colorado. Walter Bond, 34, was arrested by federal agents Thursday.
The FBI alleges Bond admitted to an informant to setting two additional fires – one at Tandy Leather Factory, the other at Tiburon (foie gras restaurant), both in Utah. In anonymous communiques, “A.L.F. Lone Wolf” took credit.
The criminal complaint outlines the case against Walter Bond, and alleges the following:
*On July 1st, investigators received a call from a confidential informant wishing to provide information on the Sheepskin Factory and Tandy Leather Factory arsons. The informant stated Bond had told him/her in a telephone call from the Salt Lake City library to refer to Voice of the Voiceless and scroll down to an article on the Sheepskin Factory arson to learn what he’d “been up to”.
*On July 22nd, the confidential informant arranged a monitored conversation with Walter Bond in a Ramada Inn in Denver, Colorado. Investigators allege Bond was heard admitting to three arsons: Sheepskin Factory, Leather Factory, and Tiburon. Bond was arrested subsequent to the conversation.
The arrest follows three months of A.L.F. activity in which three businesses (in UT and CO) were targeted by arson. “A.L.F. Lone Wolf” took credit for all three arsons in two communiques. Coverage of the arsons can be read at:
Tandy Leather Factory arson story
Tiburon restaurant arson story
To date, Bond is charged only with the Sheepskin Factory arson. The crime carries a mandatory minimum of 5 years in federal prison. Additional charges for the two Utah arsons are possible.
The suspect also served prison time in 1997 for an arson at a meth lab in Iowa. Bond received notoriety when the vegan straight edge band Earth Crisis wrote a song about Bond and the arson titled “To Ashes” for their 2009 album “To The Death”.
The criminal complaint makes note of the term “Go Vegan” used in one of the Long Wolf communiques, and Bond’s “Vegan” neck tattoo (see below).
The timeline of events leading to Walter Bond’s arrest, as outlined in the criminal complaint, are as follows:
April 30th, 2010
Fire destroys Sheepskin Factory store in Denver, Colorado. The uninsured building is destroyed, causing $500,000 damages.
Investigators review security camera footage showing an individual wearing a hooded sweatshirt and backpack near the building around the time of the fire.
June 5th, 2010
The Tandy Leather Factory in Salt Lake City, Utah is broken into and a fire is set causing extensive damages estimated at $20,000.
July 1st, 2010
The FBI receives a call from a confidential informant, stating Walter Bond had admitted to him/her he was responsible for two fires: the Sheepskin Factory arson, and a second fire at Tandy Leather Factory in Salt Lake City, Utah. The informant stated he/she believed Bond contacted him/her from a payphone at the Salt Lake City Library. When asked what he had been up to lately, Bond reportedly told the informant to visit www.voiceofthevoiceless.org, and that that’s what he’d “been up to”.
July 3rd, 2010
Tiburon, a restaurant serving foie gras in Sandy, Utah, is set on fire. Damages estimated at $10,000.
July 22nd, 2010
The informant arranges a meeting with Walter Bond at a Ramada Inn in Denver, Colorado. The meeting is recorded and monitored by the ATF. Agents state they hear Bond admit to setting the fires at Sheepskin Factory, Leather Factory, and Tiburon. Bond reportedly stated it angered him the business made a profit from animals. Agents also report he stated he intended to burn Sheepskin Factory down again “in a couple of years”.
Subsequent to the monitored conversation, agents arrest Walter Bond. On his person they allegedly find a copy of “Declaration of War – Killing People to Save Animals and the Environment“.
Bond remains held in a Denver jail.
More news on the arrest will be made available as it emerges.
-Peter Young
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While the economy collapses, Vegan Edge Hip Hop invades Greece. Pictures and write-up forthcoming.
Animal liberationists keep it real in Mexico.
This isn’t late breaking news, but we want to add another voice of approval for the pieing of anti-vegan writer Lierre Keith. Keith, a follower of the organic animal murder promoters at the Weston A. Price Foundation, made the mistake of taking her message to the anarchist bookfair in California. It should be noted that her immediate response to being pied was to call for the police, a response that offers yet more evidence that consuming animals leads to snitching and other degenerate behavior.
We eagerly await news on the pieing of Derrick Jensen.
Rob R Rock, the first vegan straight edge rapper whose 1990 song “Cruelty Free” is featured as a hidden track on Vegan Edge Hip Hop Volume II, breaks his silence in the following email.
I don’t know what to say about this except that clearly, this man has lost his fighting spirit. This culture has broken his will to resist. Don’t let it break yours.
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“I don’t know you, but guessing from your URL, I think you folks used one of my songs on your vegan rap compilation? I don’t have any problem with your doing that, as I think I said at the time… but that’s not the reason for my writing…
I’m writing to ask you to please remove my mailing address from your mailing list. I’m sure you understand that I have two businesses and a family and I can’t have communications sent to me from folks under investigation from the FBI. Innocent or not, I have a responsibility as a father these days to stay as far away as trouble as humanly possible. Something I was not always wise enough to do in the past, in many different ways… but I digress….
I do wish you the best in your ongoing struggle with this — my best advice (which I’m sure you’ve heard from others) is get a good lawyer!! Being innocent is not enough; good legal representation makes all the difference in the world. Freedom – use it or lose it!
peace out – Rob R”
A well-known (historically) vegan straight edge house, once featured on the National Geographic channel, was raided by the FBI this week. The search warrant (view below) indicated the raid was part of an investigation into the liberation of 401 animals from a University of Iowa laboratory in 2004.
Below is the full story from Green is the New Red.
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FBI agents and law enforcement from multiple agencies have raided a well-known activist group house in Salt Lake City, Utah, today in connection with an investigation of Animal Liberation Front crimes in Iowa.
I just got off the phone with multiple housemates who were there witnessing the raid, and who were able to read the warrant. Details about all of this are still emerging, but at this point it is clear that the warrant was issued by the Southern District of Iowa, and authorizes the seizure of any books, pamphlets, computers and other materials tied to “animal enterprise terrorism.” [UPDATE: Here is copy of the warrant.]
Some background: In Minnesota, a graduate student named Scott DeMuth has been indicted on conspiracy charges under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. The charges are related to a 2004 raid by the Animal Liberation Front at the University of Iowa.
Another Minnesota activist, Carrie Feldman, has been jailed for refusing to testify about her political beliefs and political associations before a grand jury. Feldman was a teenager at the time of the ALF crime, and says the grand jury is clearly an attempt to harass and intimidate the activist community.
So how did the FBI end up in Utah? One of the housemates, Peter Young, is repeatedly mentioned by name in the warrant. Young was one of the first people prosecuted for “animal enterprise terrorism” in connection to fur farm raids in the late 90s. (His co-defendant Justin Samuel is also mentioned in the warrant). He served two years in prison, and has been living in Salt Lake City, speaking at colleges, and writing on his website, Voice of the Voiceless. He is among the most vocal, public supporters of the ALF and direct action.
The only connection I can decipher between Young and the Iowa investigation is this: in an emergency motion filed against Scott DeMuth, to keep him in jail, the government calls DeMuth an “anarchist” and “domestic terrorist.” As evidence of this, they say he is an “associate” of Peter Young. As DeMuth’s faculty advisor has publicly explained, this is tied to his research as a graduate student.
There are about nine people living at the activist group house in Salt Lake. At least 15 computers were taken by the FBI, along with boxes of documents, notebooks, files, and address books. The house is well-known in the area as a gathering space for animal rights and other activists. No arrests have been made, and at this point it seems Iowa is being used as a pretext for a continued campaign of harassment and intimidation.
Among the items taken from the FBI’s terrorism raid: a postcard for Iowa 80, “the world’s largest truck stop.”
- Will Potter
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