{"id":1233,"date":"2011-07-10T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2013-02-03T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:12:56","slug":"walter-bond-pleads-guilty-to-two-alf-arsons-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Walter Bond Pleads Guilty to Two ALF Arsons in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a hearing today, Walter Bond changed his plea to \u201cguilty\u201d in  charges he set fire to two businesses in the Salt Lake City area.  Prosecutors say Bond set fires at the Tandy Leather Factory  Store and  the Tiburon restaurant. Total damages were more than $10,000. Both were  claimed by the Animal Liberation Front.<\/p>\n<p>Bond is already serving a 5-year sentence after pleading guilty in  Colorado to burning down Sheepskin Factory, a retail store that sold  sheepskins.<\/p>\n<p>This is a view of the burned-out Tandy Leather Factory in Salt Lake City:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceofthevoiceless.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/USA_Tandy_June101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.voiceofthevoiceless.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/USA_Tandy_June101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A judge set Bond\u2019s sentencing for Sept. 19, where  he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of  $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports were conflicting, but it appears prosecutors will <em>not <\/em>be asking for the Utah sentence to run back-to-back with his current Colorado sentence.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from the Sheepskin Factory communique, which Bond took credit for:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBe warned that making a living from the use and abuse of  animals will  not be tolerated,\u201d ALF Lone Wolf wrote in the aftermath  of the Sheepskin  Factory fire. \u201cAlso be warned that leather is every  bit as evil as fur,  as demonstrated in my recent arson against the  Leather Factory in Salt  Lake City. Go vegan!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please write Walter a letter of support:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voiceofthevoiceless.org\/breaking-fbi-makes-arrest-in-sheepskin-factory-arson\/\">Walter Edmund Bond<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Davis County Jail<br \/>\nWalter Bond 2011-03339<br \/>\nPO Box 130<br \/>\nFarmington UT 84025-0130 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And check out Walter Bond\u2019s support site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supportwalter.org\/\">Support Walter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a hearing today, Walter Bond changed his plea to \u201cguilty\u201d in charges he set fire to two businesses in the Salt Lake City area. Prosecutors say Bond set fires at the Tandy Leather Factory Store and the Tiburon restaurant. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/?p=1233\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[882],"tags":[59,204],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-united-states","tag-walter-bond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waronsociety.noblogs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}