Dear friends

ELP is sad to report that American Earth First! activist Frank Brian Ambrose has pleaded guilty one count of conspiracy to commit arson. In doing so he has admitted his involvement in the 1999 ELF arson on Michigan State University. He has suggested that four other people (named in the original charge) were also involved with the arson. He has also admitted his involvement in an arson on a logging company in 2000, again suggesting the other four people named in the original charge were also involved.

In addition to this Ambrose has also admitted his involvement in eleven other ELF actions occuring between 1999 and 2003. The actions include arson, criminal damage and tree spiking.

Ambrose has agreed to cooperate with the FBI in their investigation into these and other ELF actions including an agreement to testify against others.

In exchange for his guilty plea of conspiracy to commit arson Ambrose will face no other charges. He now faces a sentence of between 5 and 20 years imprisonment.

For full details of Ambrose’s guilty plea/cooperation deal go to

http://midwestgreenscare.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/plea-agreement-frank-ambrose.pdf

Following this cooperation agreement ELP is denoucing Frank Brian Ambrose as a police informant and we shall not be offering Ambrose any more support either now or at any time in the future.