{"id":2649,"date":"2014-01-25T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2014-01-25T09:25:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T17:25:22","slug":"largest-fox-farm-in-u-s-named-as-target-of-burglary-tool-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2014\/01\/25\/largest-fox-farm-in-u-s-named-as-target-of-burglary-tool-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest fox farm in U.S. named as target of \u201cburglary tool\u201d conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Peter Young<br \/>\nAnimalLiberationFrontline<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2650\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/furfarm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2650\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2650\" alt=\"Inside the Aeschleman fox farm.\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/furfarm1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/furfarm1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/furfarm1-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/furfarm1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the Aeschleman fox farm.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Prosecutors name the Aeschleman fox farm as the intended \u201cburglary target\u201d of Kevin Olliff and Tyler Lang.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the arrest of Kevin Olliff and Tyler Lang for \u201cpossession of burglary tools,\u201d one thing was suspiciously missing from the prosecution\u2019s case: A target. At no point was the intended \u201cburglary\u201d target named, adding another layer of absurdity and farce to the case, where two activists were charged with possessing \u201cburglary tools\u201d merely for having wire cutters in their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Kevin Olliff was sentenced to 2.5 years on these charges. Towards the end of his case, the prosecution finally revealed their theory (unsubstantiated by evidence) as to where Tyler Lang and Kevin Olliff were headed that night: The Aeschleman fox farm, in Roanoke IL.\u00a0 The two were pulled over in Roanoke, allegedly a short distance from the farm.<\/p>\n<p>The Aeschleman fox farm is notable for two reasons: It is believed to be the largest fox fur farm in the US (or <em>was<\/em> \u2013 see below). And it was the location of among the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ASW0YYhz-r4\">only footage ever taken of animals being killed on a fur farm<\/a>, as the target of a PETA investigation in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The same week the Aeschleman farm was named in Kevin Olliff\u2019s case, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coalitionagainstfurfarms.com\/\">Coalition Against Fur Farms<\/a> named a new fox farm, also in Illinois, that may replace the Aeschleman farm as the largest fox farm in the country. There is not enough information to make it conclusive, but the writeup on this new farm can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coalitionagainstfurfarms.com\/largest-fox-farm-in-the-us-discovered\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is recent information that the Aeschleman fox farm is still open. And so far, it remains untouched by the Animal Liberation Front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Peter Young AnimalLiberationFrontline Prosecutors name the Aeschleman fox farm as the intended \u201cburglary target\u201d of Kevin Olliff and Tyler Lang. Since the arrest of Kevin Olliff and Tyler Lang for \u201cpossession of burglary tools,\u201d one thing was suspiciously missing from the prosecution\u2019s case: A target. At no point was the intended \u201cburglary\u201d target named, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2014\/01\/25\/largest-fox-farm-in-u-s-named-as-target-of-burglary-tool-conspiracy\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649"}],"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=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}