SUV firebomber gets 12 years
Rocky Mountain News
Thursday, July 26, 2007
A man who set firebombs in seven large SUVs last March pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 years in prison Wednesday.
Grant Barnes, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of using an incendiary device and one count of second-degree arson.
Barnes, suspected of using the methods of the eco-terrorist group Earth Liberation Front, was arrested March 22 for allegedly setting off or trying to ignite firebombs under the SUVs over four days from March 18 to March 21. The targeted cars were parked in the Cherry Creek and Lowry neighborhoods.
When Barnes was arrested, police found a box of seven of the devices in the back of his car.
Police said they are replicas of bombs shown on ELF's Web site. Someone wrote the letters ELF on a Hummer H2 hours after one of the firebombs went off.
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