Washington - Ten years after an arson attack on a Colorado
ski resort, the FBI Wednesday said it was still looking for four
suspects who are believed to have fled abroad, and doubled the reward
for information leading to their arrest.
The suspects are believed to have belonged to a group called the
Family, which is blamed for the torching a ski resort in Vail,
Colorado, causing 26 million dollars in damages.
The FBI upped the reward for information to 50,000 dollars about
the whereabouts of Josephine Overaker, Joseph Mahmoud Dibee, Justin
Franchi Solondz and Rebecca Rubin.
Overaker has been on the run since 2001 and might be living in
Spain. Dibee is reckoned to live in Syria. Solondz could be anywhere
in Canada, Europe or Asia, and Rubin is believed to be in the US or
Canada, officials said.
The group acted in the name of the Animal Liberation Front and the
Earth Liberation Front, which is also suspected in other arsons,
vandalism and illegal animal releases in the US. Overall damages
blamed on crimes by the Family amounts to 48 million dollars, the FBI
said.
'Any way you look at it, these individuals are considered as
terrorists. Regardless of their political or social message, their
actions were criminal and they violated federal laws,' said Michael B
Ward, deputy assistant director of the FBI Counterterrorism Division.
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