Another defendant has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the 2001 firebombing that destroyed the University of Washington’s horticulture center. Under a plea bargain, Jennifer Kolar, 33, will be sentenced on January 5 to five to seven years in prison, the Associated Press reported. Additional defendants are expected to plead guilty in that arson, and, following a federal investigation, other self-confessed members of the Earth Liberation Front have already pleaded guilty to conspiring to set a string of fires in five Western states to protest development. The fires caused a total of $20-million in damage but no injuries.
The University of Washington rebuilt the horticulture center, where researchers had studied fast-growing hybrid poplars in hopes of limiting the amount of natural forests that timber companies log.
