{"id":15622,"date":"2025-07-24T08:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=15622"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:23:42","slug":"fbi-snitch-amy-upham-now-residing-in-asheville-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2025\/07\/24\/fbi-snitch-amy-upham-now-residing-in-asheville-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Snitch Amy Upham Now Residing in Asheville, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15623\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AmyUpham_mic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15623\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15623\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AmyUpham_mic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy Upham, recently of Asheville, NC<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Amy Upham<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Selena Kate Lloyd\u00a0<\/strong>(Lloyd is ~39 years old) of Buffalo, NY<\/p>\n<p>Upham and Lloyd were tenants in the apartment above Burning Books, a book store in Buffalo, New York. They told agents from the FBI&#8217;s Buffalo office that the shop&#8217;s owners\u2014Leslie James Pickering, Theresa Baker, and Nate Buckley\u2014were inciting violence in workshops and talks at Burning Books. As a result, the FBI initiated two years of regular surveillance of the shop and Pickering and Baker&#8217;s home. This was exacerbated by the fact that Pickering was a former spokesperson for the North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office.<\/p>\n<p>The surveillance ultimately embraced a potential \u201clocal eco-terrorist cell\u201d (quote from FBI files) of nine locals: Pickering, Baker, Buckley, and six unnamed others. Lloyd appears to have a prior relationship with the FBI and a history of disrupting organizations and projects in Moscow (Idaho) as well as Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p><em>Current Information:<\/em> Upham has relocated to the Asheville, NC, area and has vacated her position as Executive Director at Blueridge Pride. From target Leslie James Pickering: &#8220;she went out of her way to go to the FBI with a list of people she didn&#8217;t like for whatever reason (even though everyone had always been kind to her) and try to frame them up as terrorists. Then, a year later she recanted her story to the FBI, saying that the so-called terrorist cell was actually just &#8220;good people with big hearts, trying to do right&#8221; or something like that. She&#8217;s a danger to be associated with.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd&#8217;s whereabouts are unknown. Both informants have reportedly struggled with mental illness, and Upham has described Lloyd as abusive and potentially dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Upham\u00a0and\u00a0Selena Kate Lloyd\u00a0(Lloyd is ~39 years old) of Buffalo, NY Upham and Lloyd were tenants in the apartment above Burning Books, a book store in Buffalo, New York. They told agents from the FBI&#8217;s Buffalo office that the shop&#8217;s owners\u2014Leslie James Pickering, Theresa Baker, and Nate Buckley\u2014were inciting violence in workshops and talks at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2025\/07\/24\/fbi-snitch-amy-upham-now-residing-in-asheville-nc\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[354,41,356,355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15653,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15622\/revisions\/15653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}