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Sep 21, 2022 · More than five years after admitting to her crimes, Ruby Montoya was sentenced to six years in federal prison.
- Julia Shipley
Sep 26, 2022 · A federal judge last week ordered Ruby Montoya, a 32-year-old climate activist, to serve six years in prison for her role in damaging the Dakota Access Pipeline.
In November 2016, Reznicek and fellow activist and Catholic Worker Ruby Montoya burned a section of the pipeline at a worksite outside of Newell, Iowa, punching holes in coffee cans, filling them with motor oil, and placing them inside cabs of machinery after being lit.
- A “Harmless” Terrorism Enhancement
- “She Was Not The One Who Struck The Matches”
- “Misguided, Wrong and Lawless”
In October 2017, less than three months after Montoya and Reznicek’s public confession, a group of 84 members of Congress wrote a letterto then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asking the Department of Justice to consider whether 18 U.S.C. 2331(5), the federal criminal code governing domestic terrorism charges, applied to acts of sabotage committed ...
Since August 2021, activists and legal professionals have raised concernsthat Montoya may have begun cooperating with law enforcement in an attempt to reduce her prison sentence by putting other activists at risk of prison instead. In her August 2021 motion to withdraw her previous guilty plea, Montoya publicly cast blame on a slew of people and cl...
In her closing statements, Judge Ebinger identified “three versions” of the events of 2016 and 2017, each as told by Montoya at different points in time. The first is the story she told during her public confession and in the pair’s public talk at the Iowa City Public Library in August 2017. In this version, the judge said, Montoya appeared as “an ...
Sep 26, 2022 · Des Moines, IA – Ruby Montoya, admitted Dakota Access Pipeline saboteur, stepped out of a car Wednesday morning in front of the federal courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa, and walked quietly into the building. Her dark hair was pulled back into a low bun and her long, teal skirt blew in the wind.
Dec 3, 2021 · Ruby Montoya is doing whatever she can to lighten her punishment after publicly admitting to a string of arson and sabotage attacks against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in 2017. According to a recent article in The Economist, “ Montoya agreed to cooperate with the FBI ” in fall 2020.
Sep 1, 2021 · Des Moines, Iowa – Attorneys for Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) opponent Ruby Montoya submitted a motion on Thursday to withdraw her plea of guilty in one of the final remaining cases related to the controversial Dakota Access pipeline.
