Posted on 11/04/2005 9:57:10 AM PST by LibertyRocks
Prosecutors are considering felony charges for an OU campus burglary. ‘The circumstances of today’s environment caused everybody to look at it in a worst case scenario framework,’ an assistant district attorney says.
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Two men arrested for breaking into maintenance tunnels beneath the University of Oklahoma and burglarizing a biology building entered a room marked “biohazard,” according to the Cleveland County District Attorney’s office.
Cleveland County assistant district attorney Rick Sitzman said Christopher Boyce, 24, and James Kent Eldridge, 21, broke into an opening into a tunnel network beneath the university, made their way underground into the Richards Hall zoology building and entered a room with a sign on the door warning of biohazards.
Both Boyce and Eldridge are charged with conspiracy to commit second-degree burglary and second-degree burglary, according to reports. The suspects could each face up to 17 years in prison.
“Some people want to portray this as simply a juvenile prank,” Sitzman said. “It may be, but we’re not convinced of that yet. The circumstances of today’s environment caused everybody to look at it in a worst case scenario framework, given the building they entered, and that they made entry to a room clearly marked ‘biohazard.’ Fortunately, it no longer had any biohazards in it, but I can’t say they didn’t know that.”
According to an affidavit, a witness observed Boyce and Eldridge Oct. 20 entering a manhole leading into the tunnel system beneath OU at the 1100 block of Asp Avenue on campus at around 2 a.m. Sitzman said the men first entered a part of the tunnel system on the west side of the building, but “found it uninteresting” and then entered another tunnel and made their way into Richards Hall.
After the witness called police, officers investigating found the locks had been cut with a bolt cutter. The officer then saw the two walking down the sidewalk.
“The officer encountered them coming down the sidewalk and the reporting party identified them,” Sitzman said.
The court records show the two were arrested at 2:46 a.m. The affidavit said one of the men was in possession of a “stoppered glass vial.”
“One of them had a glass vial in their possession, Mr. Boyce. Whether it was empty or not, I do not know,” Sitzman said.
According to OU’s Web site, both men have been students at the university. Boyce is listed as a senior at the College of Arts and Sciences, with an e-mail address listed as camus_in_revolt@ou.edu. Eldridge is listed as a junior in the same college, with the e-mail as aither@ou.edu. Both men appear to be members of various campus and off-campus organizations.
Both were also associated with a group off-campus called 3rd Space Infoshop and Lending Library, featured in a recent issue of Oklahoma Gazette. Boyce was listed as co-founder of 3rd Space, which some members have described as “anarchist.”
“(The concept) third space is from Theodore Adorno, a sociologist, and he talked about how community needs spaces that aren’t designated merely for work or for home,” Boyce told the Gazette. “But third spaces are where people gather in the community — like coffee shops, hardware stores, any place where people just sit down and talk.”
Book titles at the organization include “Encyclopedia of Political Anarchy,” “Fast Food Nation” and “Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, & Cheap Labor in the American Black Market,” according to the article.
In a January interview with The Oklahoma Daily student newspaper, Boyce said the library attracted conservatives and liberals.
“Revolution is not about taking over the government, it is not having a government at all,” Boyce said. “Nobody telling us what to think and what to do. Existing without capital, defining your own values.”
An infoshop member said the group is working toward gaining nonprofit status under the name Greenbriar Collective. Recently, members of the 3rd Space claimed they were being harassed by the FBI as having ties to Joel Henry Hinrichs III, an OU engineering student who blew himself up on campus during the Oct. 1 Kansas State football game. The first line of a recent Greenbriar blog posting was “The FBI came by again.”
“This time it was about them having a ‘tip’ that the OU Stadium bomber was ‘seen moving boxes at the house.’ Sorry ya’ll, no one here has ever met him. Please go away now, because your ~70 year history of destroying innocent people’s lives is creepy, and harassment isn’t going to make us stop,” the blogger wrote.
Eldridge’s father, Oklahoma City attorney Kent Eldridge, recently represented Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr., another OU student. Dreyling reportedly pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating security requirements after trying to bring what he described as “basically a pipe bomb” aboard a plane Aug. 10 at Will Rogers World Airport.
Kent Eldridge said his son, James, is a hard-working student with a clean record and expects this controversy will subside.
“We are very proud parents, and he is a fine young man,” Kent Eldridge said.
John Rushton, another founder of the 3rd Space, told the Gazette last week that he expected more visits from the FBI and that Boyce and Eldridge meant no harm.
“Obviously, I’ve seen things floating around the Internet, and I could tell right away that people were going to be convicting them as potential terrorists. I can tell you they couldn’t possibly be that,” Rushton said.
Just a depressed young man hoping to infect himself with plague in an attempt to commit suicide.
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"Recently, members of the 3rd Space claimed they were being harassed by the FBI as having ties to Joel Henry Hinrichs III"
Well, alrighty then. Sounds as if the "lone suicide" thingie is only operational when ties to Muslims are at question. Does anyone there have any idea, or even informed speculation, as to what was originally being stored in this room marked "biohazard?"
Ping to a new article with information on the Boyce/Eldridge case, as well as the OU Bombing investigation...
add another link into the islamic jihad terrorist ring at OU.
War is here now!
This story gets curiouser and curiouser!
The night the local news reported the break-in, they did say "bio-hazard" but then glossed over it. Thanks for this ping. Something is very wrong in the Heart of Oklahoma.
curiouser and curiouser. probably just angry, depressed individuals, according to their university president, I'm sure.
What the hell's going on at OU. I think it's time for them to move to the northern division of the Big12.
First, a word or caution...
"Biohazard" is not a "significant warning" in the biology / medical field.
Prediction: 5 people will jump up and tell me how scary the word biohazard is and I should not take it so lightly.
The truth is you will find that used for a whole host of things, from the "red bag" medical waste, to the sludge from waste water treatment plants.
Any room that had significanly dangerous materials would require far more security than a simple sign, includeding double locked doors, air filtration systems, Class 3 or Class 4 containment warnings, and locked cabinets inside.
As for the other items, once you use bolt cutters its gone past the point of being a juvenile prank.
For further reading and enlightment, I suggest everyone research into the Red Anarchist movement and all the others. If you go to their links or backers pages, you will also notice that almost all the names are the same:
ANSWER - MoveOn.org - DNC - American Communist Party - Socialist Workers of Amewrica/world - Democrat Party - Black Caucus - ELF - ALF - SPCA - MANBLA - GLSEN - all unions!! - Green Party - etc ..
These people are so insane and mentally unbalanced that they are helping the islamic jihad pigs thinking they are "comrades in arms".
IF they would actually win, these perverts would be the first ones to have their heads slowly and pinfully removed from their necks - and deservedly so.
"Biohazard" is not a "significant warning" in the biology / medical field."
It runs the gamut, from bodily fluids to some pretty "significant" stuff. All the article stated was that this was a storage room with "biohazard" on the door. There was no mention of anything outside of that, so there could very well be double locked doors, sophisticated air filtration systems, Class 3 or Class 4 containment warnings and locked cabinets inside.
Or, there might not be. That's why I'm hoping that somebody has knowledge of what had been stored in this room previously, or at least someone who can speculate knowledgeably about it.
Good find LR. Could you add me to your ping list please?
I've been working on a hypothesis that ties the 2001 anthrax attacks-not to al Qaeda-but to a domestic terror group: perhaps the same group that caused tularemia spores to be disseminated during a recent protest in Washington,DC.
This begins to fit in with my "tinfoil hat" ideas.
Thanks for the caution... I do understand what you are saying.
It will be interesting to see what comes out during their trial and such as far as motive, and plans.
I agree that the "bolt cutters" as well as the "bag of burglary tools" that were found on the scene makes it far less likely it was a simple "prank".
You know I understand why Anarchists feel threatened by conservatives - in regards to "social" freedom, but I've never understood why they put in with the "liberals" in this country. It baffles me that they don't see that the socialism/communism pushed by the "left" would bring about the same problems - if not WORSE - than the "fascism" they puport to see on the "right"...
Point taken, however....why the need to break into the place to steal a mysterious vial of whatever it was? (They've never told us.)
puport = purport (o:
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Announcing The Third Space
infoshop and library, open in
Norman, Oklahoma
Saturday, January 29 2005 @ 02:00 PM PST
Contributed by: Anonymous
We are proud to announce the opening of The Third Space infoshop
and lending library. Located in Norman, Oklahoma, we feature
radical, revolutionary, and progressive social theory, philosophy,
history, race, class and gender studies, art, literature, DIY manuals
and guides, and more, we have a selection of over eight hundred
books. In addition, we also have a collection of over one thousand
'zines, magazines, and periodicals, as well as a small collection of
audio and video material, and a public internet terminal.
We are proud to announce the opening of The Third Space infoshop
and lending library. Located in Norman, Oklahoma, we feature
radical, revolutionary, and progressive social theory, philosophy,
history, race, class and gender studies, art, literature, DIY manuals
and guides, and more, we have a selection of over eight hundred
books. In addition, we also have a collection of over one thousand
'zines, magazines, and periodicals, as well as a small collection of
audio and video material, and a public internet terminal.
We hope to be a social space, safe place, and organizing venue for
anarchists, radicals and other activists in central Oklahoma. We are
planning discussion groups, and will make our space available for
meetings and events, if you contact us in advance. Just a block from
the University of Oklahoma, we are located at 813 College Ave A.
Our public hours are:
Saturday 1pm-5pm
Sunday 1pm-5pm
Tuesday 7pm-11pm
Look for the rainbow flag. Feel free to call us at any time, at
405-307-8594, or email us at athirdspace@riseup.net for more
information.
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