A federal magistrate judge has fined a Friday
Harbor animal-rights activist and sentenced her to probation for
failing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the
firebombing of a forest-products company.
45-year-old Allison Lance
Watson had refused to answer questions raised by investigators
looking into a fire at the Olympia headquarters of Holbrook
Incorporated. U-S Magistrate Judge Monica Benton in Seattle put
Watson on probation for two years and ordered her to pay a
five-thousand-dollar fine.
Watson was accused of lying about
whether an activist friend, considered a suspect in the firebombing
in May of 2000, had used a truck Watson had rented.
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