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Joseph Dibee, former international fugitive and supporter of the Earth Liberation and the Animal Liberation Fronts, got a shorter sentence than his co-defendants, raising questions about how the federal government prosecutes what it considers acts of domestic terrorism
Joseph Dibee, a former fugitive and member of the Earth Liberation Front, was sentenced to time served for his role in arsons at animal-related businesses in California and Oregon during the late1990s.
Dibee was a fugitive living abroad for more than a decade after a string of arsons in the 1990s tied to the Earth Liberation Front group.
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U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Joseph Dibee, a former supporter of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, to time served and could be ordered him to pay his portion of $1.3 million in restitution. In April, Dibee pleaded guilty to the 1997 arson of Cavel West, a slaughterhouse in central Oregon that butchered wild horses as well as the 2001 arson of a Bureau of Land Management wild horse coral in Litchfield, California. Dibee was arrested in 2018 and spent 29 months in pretrial custody.