Activists Arrested for Vegan Barbecue

Thank goodness that Homeland Security considers Animal
Rights activists to be terrorists. High tech surveillance
prevented a Vegan Barbecue that challenged the very core
of America's meat-eating values.

Twelve police officers, some wearing full tactical SWAT
gear and carrying machine guns captured vegan terrorists
with the goods: veggie burgers and Yves hot dogs. The
entire vegan community refuses to support those arrested
because rumor has it that the potato salad was made
with Hellmann's mayo which contains chicken embryos.

Arlo Guthrie wrote a song about a man arrested for littering.
That song helped to end America's war in Southeast Asia. Today's
news might similarly inspire a 21st-century folksinger to write
about the subversive nature and dire consequences of daring to
host a barbecue in which no animal flesh is to be grilled.

The Actual Article:
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Home News Tribune Online 07/26/05

By CHERYL SARFATY
STAFF WRITER
HIGHLAND PARK â€" Borough resident and animal-activist Janice
Angelillo remains at the Essex County Jail in Newark in lieu
of $15,000 bail after she and a companion were arrested around
4 a.m. Thursday for giving a police officer fake identities
after they were stopped on foot outside the Hoffman-LaRoche
facility in Nutley, police said.

Angelillo's borough home was raided Saturday night by more than
a dozen state and local police, some armed with assault rifles
and clad in bulletproof vests and helmets.

Just before the Thursday arrest, police had been alerted to an
incident in nearby Bloomfield where derogatory slogans about
Hoffman-LaRoche were spray-painted on a white fence in the same
color paint found on the hands and clothing of Angelillo and
Philadelphia resident Nicholas Cooney, said Capt. Steve Serrao,
assistant director for operations of the state Office of Counter
Terrorism.

After the pair was arrested, police obtained a search warrant to
examine their black Subaru, which was parked near Hoffman-LaRoche.
The two also were subject to three more charges, this time by New
Jersey State Police: criminal mischief, criminal trespassing and
conspiracy to commit criminal mischief, said Serrao, who is also
counterterrorism bureau chief for the state police.

Angelillo and Cooney are affiliated with the animal-activist group
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Huntingdon Life Sciences, a British
company, has a facility in Franklin, where SHAC has held protests on
numerous occasions because the company conducts laboratory testing
on animals, Serrao said.

Early Saturday morning after the arrests, police began watching
Angelillo's home on Parker Road, where she lives with her husband,
Ted Nebus. That night at 7:15., police descended on the residence
after observing what they considered suspicious behavior.

"What happened at 7:15 was that members of the New Jersey State
Police observed (five) white males carrying boxes out of the
residence that we were surveilling in anticipation of obtaining
and executing a search warrant," Serrao said.

The men were loading the boxes into a vehicle, according to Serrao.

"When we observed that activity, we communicated that information
to the Prosecutor's Office that was preparing a warrant for us,
and they authorized us to detain those suspects and secure those
boxes because they may in fact be the evidence we were seeking,"
said Serrao.

Nebus was one of the five men detained, but he was not charged
with any criminal activity, Serrao said.

Approximately 15 officers were on the scene â€" between eight and
10 were wearing full tactical SWAT gear, while some detectives
were in plain clothes, and other officers, including two borough
officers, were in uniform, he said.

Tom Howard, one of the men detained at the scene, said Sunday that
he was part of a group heading out to a barbecue and was carrying
a grill and other items for the outing.

Serrao confirmed that some of the boxed items examined may have
been for a barbecue, but other evidence in the vehicle was
considered to be possibly linked to related criminal activity.
He declined to identify those items because of the ongoing
investigation.

Howard said Sunday that police entered the residence about four
hours before a search warrant was signed and ransacked the home.

"The home was secured by our tactical troopers," Serrao said.
"We certainly never ransacked any home."

Serrao said the investigators didn't enter the home, but the SWAT
team did to secure it as part of tactical policies and procedures.

"That did include entering the residence to make sure there were
no more individuals in there that would pose a hazard to us," he
said. "That was an instantaneous, momentary type of thing. It was
a safety measure to protect the officers and the people in the
area in anticipation of us executing a warrant. There was no
search conducted at 7 p.m."

The search began at 11:15 p.m., once the warrant was obtained,
Serrao added.

He said it is likely that Angelillo and Cooney will be charged
today for alleged involvement in another criminal-mischief
incident in Long Beach Township that occurred within 24 hours
of the two being apprehended in Nutley early Thursday morning.

"We recovered evidence from the (Subaru) and the residence that
directly links Cooney and Angelillo to that (Long Beach Township)
incident," he said.

Though SHAC does conduct peaceful demonstrations, it also has
a history of engaging in criminal activities, Serrao said.

"In the past eight months, there have been at least 12 acts of
criminal mischief perpetrated against employees of Hoffman-LaRoche,
which is a company that does business with Huntingdon Life Sciences,"
he said.

"There have been acts of spray-painting, breaking windows, harassing
phone calls, and doing damage to cars," Serrao said.

SHAC is also being investigated throughout the state for allegedly
carrying out criminal acts â€" based on faulty information â€" against
people who were never involved with Hoffman-LaRoche or Huntingdon Life
Sciences, he said.

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