{"id":2797,"date":"2014-05-22T13:53:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2014-06-22T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:57:20","slug":"former-elf-member-pleads-guilty-to-arsons-snitches-on-friends-for-reduced-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2014\/05\/22\/former-elf-member-pleads-guilty-to-arsons-snitches-on-friends-for-reduced-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ELF Member Pleads Guilty to Arsons; Snitches on Friends for Reduced Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"liammulholland2\"<\/a>Originally posted on\u00a0the EarthFirst! Journal website.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tomorrow, May 5, 2014, Liam Mulholland will be sentenced for his involvement in a 2003 ELF arson.<\/p>\n

Mulholland pleaded guilty to setting fire to a house at Mystic Forest housing development in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on March 21, 2003. Spray painted on the garage of a neighboring house were the words \u201cELF \u2013 No Sprawl.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Michigan, the mandatory minimum for this kind of property destruction is five years in prison. However, the government has requested a reduced sentence because of Mulholland\u2019s \u201ccooperation\u201d with the federal government.<\/p>\n

From his\u00a0plea agreement<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Government\u2019s Sentencing Memorandum<\/a>, it seems Mulholland handed the feds a lot of information. He claimed involvement in several more ELF and ALF actions, including arsons that destroyed two homes at another housing development in Michigan in June of 2003; using incendiary devices to destroy chicken delivery trucks in Bloomington, Indiana in May of 2002; an arson at a housing development in Bloomington, Indiana in June of 2002; and a failed attempt to set fire to a pumping station in Stanwood, Michigan, in September of 2003.<\/p>\n

Mulholland also provided feds with the names of the other activists with whom he carried out these actions\u2014as well as where and how they traveled, where and when they planned and discussed their actions, what they purchased for the actions, how they disposed of the purchased items, and how they carried out each action.<\/p>\n

<\/span>The government is requesting a sentence of 18 months for Mulholland\u2014a reduction of 42 months from the state\u2019s mandatory minimum\u2014because his cooperation will aid the government in cracking down on the other ELF and ALF suspects: \u201cThe government has determined that the defendant\u2019s cooperation to date amounts to substantial assistance in the investigation or prosecution of others.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agreement also asserts that, because of his cooperation, all his charges related to the other admitted ELF and ALF arsons will be dismissed.<\/p>\n

And it seems that Mulholland isn\u2019t the only one snitching. The Sentencing Memorandum states that, though Mulholland often asserted that he was simply \u201calong for the ride\u201d during these actions, the feds have received contradictory information: \u201cAccording to witnesses, it was the defendant who had the expertise to construct incendiary devices and did so for both the arson of the delivery trucks at Sim\u2019s Poultry, as well as the attempted arson of the Ice Mountain pumping station.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more information after tomorrow\u2019s sentencing hearing. If anyone has pictures of Liam Mulholland, or more information, please send them to collective [at] earthfirstjournal [dot] org, so that the word can be spread, and activists and activist groups can be on guard for the presence of this snitch.<\/p>\n

For more information on snitches and informants, be sure to check out our online\u00a0Informant Tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Rabbit is an editor for the\u00a0<\/em>Earth First! Journal\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Newswire. He can be reached at rabbit [at] earthfirstjournal [dot] org. If you appreciated reading this article, or want to support the\u00a0informant tracking<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0prisoner support<\/a>\u00a0services, please consider\u00a0subscribing<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0donating<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on\u00a0the EarthFirst! Journal website. Tomorrow, May 5, 2014, Liam Mulholland will be sentenced for his involvement in a 2003 ELF arson. Mulholland pleaded guilty to setting fire to a house at Mystic Forest housing development in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on March 21, 2003. Spray painted on the garage of a neighboring house were … <\/p>\n

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