{"id":4155,"date":"2016-12-28T04:20:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T12:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2017-01-03T04:24:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T12:24:51","slug":"activist-who-freed-minks-pleads-guilty-to-federal-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2016\/12\/28\/activist-who-freed-minks-pleads-guilty-to-federal-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist who freed minks pleads guilty to federal charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Entry-header\">\n<div class=\"Entry-info\">\n<div class=\"Entry-infoContent\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/wtop.com\/author\/the-associated-press\/\" data-swiftype-name=\"author\" data-swiftype-type=\"string\">The Associated Press<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Entry-content u-textFormat\" data-swiftype-name=\"content\" data-swiftype-type=\"text\">\n<div id=\"ndn-video-player-top\" class=\"ndn_embed ndn_embedding ndn_embedContainer ndn-widget-embed-1 ndn_embedded\" data-config-width=\"100%\" data-config-height=\"9\/16w\" data-config-distributor-id=\"90460\"><\/div>\n<p>SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 An animal rights activist who vandalized a fur store and journeyed around the country freeing thousands of minks from farms has pleaded guilty to a federal charge in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego Union-Tribune says (http:\/\/bit.ly\/2hOZani ) Nicole Kissane pleaded Tuesday to a charge of conspiracy to violate the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors are expected to recommend an 18-month sentence.<\/p>\n<p>In her plea deal, the former Escondido woman acknowledged damaging the mink businesses. She also acknowledged vandalizing a San Diego fur store and the homes of the business owner and the owner\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s agreed to pay more than $420,000 in restitution.<\/p>\n<p>A co-defendant, Joseph Buddenberg, was sentenced in May to two years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>[More information and how you can help here:\u00a0https:\/\/supportnicoleandjoseph.com\/]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3633\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/josephand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 An animal rights activist who vandalized a fur store and journeyed around the country freeing thousands of minks from farms has pleaded guilty to a federal charge in San Diego. The San Diego Union-Tribune says (http:\/\/bit.ly\/2hOZani ) Nicole Kissane pleaded Tuesday to a charge of conspiracy to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2016\/12\/28\/activist-who-freed-minks-pleads-guilty-to-federal-charge\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3633,"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\/4155"}],"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=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4156,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}