Posted on 09/22/2022 5:50:11 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge sentenced an Arizona woman on Thursday to six years in prison for using a cutting torch to damage the Dakota Access pipeline in Iowa and setting fire to pipeline equipment in three counties in 2016 and 2017.
The judge also ordered Ruby Katherine Montoya, 32, to pay nearly $3.2 million in restitution together with Jessica Reznicek, a woman who helped her.
Montoya pleaded guilty to conspiracy to damage an energy facility. She admitted to helping Reznicek and others damage the pipeline in several locations in Iowa.
“The sentence imposed today demonstrates that any crime of domestic terrorism will be aggressively investigated and prosecuted by the federal government,” U.S. Attorney Richard D. Westphal said in a statement. He said the seriousness of the actions warranted a significant prison sentence and should deter others who might consider engaging in domestic terrorism.
Reznicek was sentenced to eight years in prison in June 2021 after pleading guilty to a similar charge. She appealed the sentence, but it was upheld by a federal appeals court in June.
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But...it was for the planet, your honor...
Same sentence as a guy dressed in a Buffalo costume simply standing in the Capital.
Maybe he killed her father...
These a$$’s were members of the Marxist group Iowa CCI. I have been on the receiving end of some of their protests over the years .
They are also affiliated with the Des Moines Catholic Worker House.
Another Marxist organization .
She was also assessed a 3.2 million dollar fine. I wouldn’t let her out till she paid every penny.
She was also assessed a 3.2 million dollar fine. I wouldn’t let her out till she paid every penny.
Just six years. And probably not even the full 6.
Women get only on average 1/3 the sentence men get for the same crimes.
We need a death penalty for sabotage.
R-U-F-F ROUGH
Saboteurs and traitors need to be executed. Period!
We need to deport the biatch. Shoot her if she tries to come back.
And Biden did 100 the times the damage with the stroke of a pen
Russia funds these greenies so stop their competitors from supplying energy.
These people are stupid useful idiots.
Gosh, she got almost as much as trepassers in the Capitol.
white supremacists - domestic terror - yep
Nice, but how long until the Biden regime comes out and claims they were white supremacist MAGA supporters?
Yep and she did cause damage.
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