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I wonder if this is real news or just a scare tactic story by animal rights activists...

WI: Charges dropped against animal activist
7/22/2005, 10:31:15 PM · by NormsRevenge · 14 replies · 525+ views
AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 7/22/05 | Todd Richmond - AP
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Federal prosecutors have dropped four extortion charges against an animal rights activist who was accused of freeing thousands of mink from farms around the Midwest. Prosecutors said they were forced to act because a Supreme Court decision changed the legal definition of extortion while Peter Daniel Young was on the run. The ruling found someone must actually take something from another person, authorities said. The surprise move shocked the owner of a farm where authorities said Young helped free 300 mink in 1997. “You’ve got to be kidding. Unbelievable. Unbelievable,” said Alex Ott, owner of Ott’s...

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I dunno about the extortion stuff but it is true that the “Animal Liberation Front” invaded some farms back in 1997, resulting in the deaths of about 200 minks of the 1500 they ‘freed’:

https://www.deseret.com/1997/4/1/19304190/mink-battle-each-other-nature-after-activists-open-their-cages