Animal rights activist pleads guilty to Salt Lake area arsons

ksl ^ | July 6th, 2011 | Geoffrey Fattah

[george76]

An animal rights activist who burned down a Colorado sheepskin store as well as a leather store and restaurant building in Salt Lake City, pleaded guilty to federal charges Wednesday.

Walter Edmund Bond, 35, pleaded guilty to felony counts of arson and violence involving animal enterprises. He has already been sentenced to five years in Colorado and could face between five to 20 years for the Utah fires when sentenced Sept. 19.

Prosecutor John Huber said the government will argue to make the Colorado and Utah sentences consecutive to one another.

"He is unapologetic. He is an unrepentant serial arsonist," Huber said, adding in the eyes of the federal government, people who commit crimes in the name of animal rights are considered "domestic terrorists."

[Hodar]

Yet another shinging example of our ‘educated, enlightned and tolerant’ left.

[Hodar]

Yet another shining example of our ‘educated, enlightened and tolerant’ left.

[Joe Boucher]

Walter Edmund Bond looks like he has a few issues.

[george76]

Lone Wolf still has a bad face.

Doesn’t look like the typical animal lover

[jazusamo]

Kinda looks like Walter will be on the inside for considerably more than five years and it’s a fed slammer. :)

[Night Hides Not]

Walter Edmund Bond looks like he has a few issues.

Great tattoos! LOL!

He should go to contact lenses, though.

[Dacus943]

"Doesn’t look like the typical animal lover"

Not to worry, if he goes to the right prison, he'll become one!

[Onelifetogive]

Looks like a member of some badass motorcycle gang of accountants.

[Cindy]

Thanks for the ping George 76.

[trisham]

I think he should get more tattoos. That face could use all the concealment it can get.

[org.whodat]

Few, he is about twenty hours from building bombs in that Algore shack.

[5Madman2]

He looks like Chevy Chase playing a tree hugging Wiccan Dirtbag

[jmacusa]

Either that or half his face looks like he fell asleep on newsprint.

[MaxMax]

A member of the Animal Liberation Front.. Follow the money.

[Amberdawn]

Looks like a Maori Vegan moron to me.

[Steely Tom]

He could improve his looks by adding to his face a tattoo of a dog’s butt.

[Seadog Bytes]

RE: '...unrepentant serial arsonist.'
...sheepskin store...
...as well as a leather store...
...and restaurant building.

Sounds like 'three strikes' to me...