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Snitch Brandon Darby featured on Public Radio's This American Life

http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=381

Episode 381: Turncoat
A well-known activist—an anarchic, revolutionary activist—is accused of spying on other activists for the FBI. The strangest thing about the rumor is, it's true. How Brandon Darby transformed from cop-hater to federal witness. Plus, a new story by Etgar Keret, about a boy who betrays his people with a pair of shoes.

 

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Midwest ELF Snitch Ian Wallace Sentenced to 3 Years

Ian Wallace, formerly of the Twin Cities and recently attending college at Stony Brook (NY), was sentenced to three years in prison this week for his role in placing two failed firebombs at U.S. Forest Service buildings where tree "research" was being conducted on the campus of Michigan Tech University in 2001.  Walllace and another traveled from Minneapolis to upper Michigan for the action, according to the cooperating plea agreement he signed on September 5, 2008.  He faced a maximum of 10 years in prison.

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Local Greenscare Snitch Ian Wallace Pleads Guilty to 2001 Michigan Tech Attempted Arson

From WLUC TV6, Negaunee, MI (Upper Peninsula)
http://wluctv6.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=207614

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 6:44 p.m.

MARQUETTE -- Twenty-seven-year-old Ian Jacob Wallace pled guilty Wednesday to attempting to firebomb a US Forest Service property at Michigan Tech in 2001.

The guilty plea came in Marquette Federal Court.

With the plea agreement, Wallace is expected to cooperate in ongoing investigations of the Earth Liberation Front, or ELF.

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