http://www.hydroracing.com/tch/local/state/story/6759531p-6647960c.htmlMADISON, Wis. (AP) - Animal-rights activists in northern California helped a Washington state man accused of releasing thousands of mink from Midwestern farms dodge authorities for the last few years, federal investigators believe.
Peter Daniel Young of Mercer Island, Wash., rented an apartment under a false name, used another activist's credit card and appears to have run a mail-order CD business over his computer while he was on the lam, according to search warrant applications recently unsealed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California.
"I have probable cause to believe that one or more individuals ... have in some manner assisted Young in remaining concealed from arrest," Scott Merriam, an agent in the FBI's San Francisco office, wrote in the applications.
Young, captured in March after seven years on the run, faces two federal counts of animal enterprise terrorism in Wisconsin. The decision on whether to bring more charges in his case rests with federal prosecutors in San Francisco since Young and his friends apparently were living in that jurisdiction.
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He was caught while stealing CD's from starbucks. Some hero.
correction - unfounded that mink died.
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