Everything about Tre Arrow totally explained
Tre Arrow, (born
Michael James Scarpitti in 1974), a
Florida native, is an
environmental activist and
politician who gained prominence in the
U.S. state of
Oregon in the late
1990s and early
2000s.
Arrow was extradited from
Canada to
Portland, Oregon on
February 29,
2008 to face 14 counts of
arson and
conspiracy. These actions were claimed as acts of protest by the radical environmental group
Earth Liberation Front (ELF).
Background
Arrow first came to attention of police and international media in July 2000 when he scaled a
U.S. Forest Service building in downtown
Portland, Oregon and lived on a nine-inch ledge for eleven days, to protest the plan to log near
Eagle Creek, Oregon. His protest played an important role in reversing the Forest Service's plans to log the area.
Arrow ran for
Congress in 2000 and received 15,000 votes as a
Pacific Green Party candidate.
In October 2001, he suffered a broken
pelvis, broken ribs and a
concussion when he fell 60 feet from a
hemlock tree where he'd perched to protest a logging sale in
Tillamook County.
Arrow fled to
Canada, where he hoped to receive political asylum. In 2004, he was arrested in
Victoria,
British Columbia for
shoplifting a pair of bolt-cutters. He was also charged with
resisting arrest. His
fingerprints later showed that he was wanted in the United States. He was in custody in Victoria's Wilkinson Penitentiary, fighting
extradition back to the United States, where he faced a possible sentence of life in prison.
He feels he won't receive a fair trial in the United States due to
character assassination by the media; several newspapers have referred to Arrow as an "eco-terrorist",
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