Utah Animal Rights Criminals Sentenced to Jail

FUR COMMISSION USA PRESS RELEASE, DECEMBER 17, 1997
Utah Animal Rights Criminals Sentenced to Jail
Animal rights criminals convicted on felony charges for attacking fur farms have received jail sentences in Salt Lake County, Utah.
On December 16, Clinton Colby Ellerman was sentenced to two consecutive one year jail terms for attacking fur farms and releasing animals, many of which died from stress caused by the attack, or were killed on the Salt Lake County roads. Judge Robert Hilder told Ellerman he would consider suspending the second one year jail term if Ellerman cooperates with authorities investigating the fur farm raids and other animal rights crimes.
On December 15, Jacob Lyman Kenison was sentenced to a year in jail and ordered to pay more than $30, 000 in restitution for firebombing a Tandy Leather store in Murray in June, 1995. Kenison is already serving a 16 month sentence for violating federal firearms laws. He lied on a federal firearms purchase form when buying an assault-style rifle he later gave as a gift to Douglas Joshua Ellerman, an animal rights activist under federal indictment for a bombing attack.
Ryan Holt, a fur farmer whose farm was attacked by Clinton Colby Ellerman, told the court that attacks by Ellerman and other animal rights criminals have caused nearly $2 million in damages to Utah farms and businesses. In addition to attacking fur farms and the leather store, animal rights criminals burned to the ground a McDonalds restaurant in West Jordan in August, 1996. An animal rights bombing at the Fur Breeders Agricultural Cooperative in Sandy resulted in nearly $1 million in damages in March, 1997. Douglas Joshua Ellerman faces federal charges for the Sandy attack.
“Utah courts are sending a strong message that animal rights terrorism won’t be tolerated,” Holt said after Ellerman was sentenced. “Animal rights extremists are entitled to their own views, but they have no right to break the law or force other people to comply with their strange beliefs. It is tragic that animal rights terrorists kill so many animals and endanger human beings in the name of animal rights,’” Holt said.
So far this year, six Utah animal rights criminals have received jail sentences. In addition to Ellerman and Kenison, four others were sentenced to jail for the arson attack against the West Jordan McDonalds.
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