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A federal apeals court overturned William Cottrell's (aka Billy Cottrell), convictions on two counts of arson for his role in the 2003 torching of several sport utility vehicles (SUV) at San Gabriel Valley car dealers, attacks authorities blamed on a radical environmentalist group. The court ruled that the judge in his trial should have allowed testimony regarding Cottrell's Asperger's Syndrome, a disability that could have affected the jury's decision.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31675
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 11, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 11, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arson
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Trials
Vandalism
Item ID
31873AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A federal jury found Cottrell guilty of conspiracy and seven counts of arson.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29308
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Trials
Item ID
29492AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Attorney Michael Mayock, representing convicted client Billy Cottrell, seeks a verdict reversal for the 2003 fire-bombing of sport utility vehicles (SUV) at a San Gabriel Valley automobile dealership. He says the jury did not know about Cottrell's Asperger's Syndrome, a neurological disorder. Cottrell's prison situation is 'nightmarish.'

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30243
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 19, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Prison
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
United States Court of Appeals
Vandalism
Item ID
30430AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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William Cottrell's (aka Billy Cottrell), a former Caltech physics student who was in prison for participating in firebombing 100 vehicles in the San Gabriel Valley (Duarte, Arcadia, West Covina) in 2003, will be resentenced. The federal court has dropped arson charges against him but he remains convicted on a conspiracy charge. He could be released or face more prison time.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31805
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arson
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Trials
Vandalism
Item ID
32002AN
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Newspaper Index
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Authorities say an E-mail unlocked a door into a string of vandalism and arson cases at SUV dealerships and led to the arrest of William Jensen Cottrell.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27846
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 14, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Hummers
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Ecoterrorists
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Cottrell, William Jensen
Vandalism
Item ID
28043AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Former Caltech graduate student William "Billy" Cottrell was re-sentenced to serve at least 18 more months in prison for participating in a vandalism spree in the San Gabriel Valley in 2003.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31822
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arson
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Trials
Vandalism
Item ID
32019AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Caltech graduate Tyler Johnson, who had been identified as a suspect in the firebombing and vandalism of more than 130 sport utility vehicles (SUVs) at automobile dealerships in the San Gabriel Valley in 2003, has died in an avalanche while hiking in the Corsian mountains in France on December 26, 2009. Johnson has been a fugitive for the past six years. Surveillance cameras captured Johnson and William ("Billy") Cottrell spray painting environmental slogans on the cars at Rusnak Mercedes Benz in Arcadia in 2003. Cottrell was convicted.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31892
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 6, 2010
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 6, 2010
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arson
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Johnson, Tyler
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Vandalism
Item ID
32089AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A DNA match becomes the first physical evidence connecting Billy Cottrell with the ecoterrorist attacks on SUV dealerships last year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29035
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 24, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 24, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Trials
Item ID
29222AN
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Newspaper Index
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A profile of William Jensen Cottrell and his attorney Stephen Alexander. Cottrell is the alleged ecoterrorist who spray-painted and torched 133 SUVs in the San Gabriel Valley.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27840
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 11, 2004
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 11, 2004
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Hummers
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Ecoterrorists
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Cottrell, William Jensen
Vandalism
Alexander, Stephen
Item ID
28037AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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William Cottrell is charged in firebombing and vandalizing of sport utility vehicles and is denied bail.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27847
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 18, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Hummers
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Ecoterrorists
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Cottrell, William Jensen
Vandalism
Item ID
28044AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Cal Tech student William Jensen Cottrell, allegedly connected with an ecoterrorist group in connection with vandalism at Rusnak Mercedes-Benz and other car dealershships in the San Gabriel Valley, was arrested by the FBI.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27839
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 10, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 10, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorists
Hummers
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Item ID
28036AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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William Jensen Cottrell, ecoterrorist, accused of involvement in the San Gabriel Valley vandalism of SUVs and Hummers, was questioned by the FBI in January.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27842
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 12, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 12, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Hummers
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Ecoterrorists
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Cottrell, William Jensen
Vandalism
Item ID
28039AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Billy Cottrell, a Cal Tech graduate student who took part in a fire bombing spree that caused millions of dollars in damage to SUV dealerships in the San Gabriel Valley, was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison. See inset for chronology of ecoterror events.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29501
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 19, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Automobile Dealerships
Cottrell, William Jensen (aka Cottrell, Billy)
Crime and Criminals
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Sport Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Sentences
Trials
Item ID
29685AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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U. S. District Court will unseal the SUV vandalism warrant for the arrest of Josh Connole, a peace activist who was never charged in connection with ecoterrorism in the San Gabriel Valley.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27900
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 23, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Hummers
Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV)
Ecoterrorists
Vandalism
Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
Conolle, Josh
Cottrell, William
Item ID
28096AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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One year ago, alleged ecoterrorists Connole and Cottrell attacked Rusnak Mercedes Benz in Arcadia and other SUV dealerships in the San Gabriel Valley. The article includes a recap of events since the attack.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29038
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2004
Pages
p. A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2004
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Ecoterrorism and ecoterrorists
Rusnak, Mercedes Benz
Connole, Josh
Cottrell, Bill
Earth Liberation Front
SUV dealerships
Item ID
29225AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Doug Lee Stone of Arcadia , who murdered his uncle, Cliff Stone, is seeking an insanity defense in his trial.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25095
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2003
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Murder
Stone, Cliff
Stone, Doug Lee
Item ID
25290AN
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Newspaper Index
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One man died and a teenage boy was critically injured Sunday in a suspected arson fire at an abandoned house on the 100 block of West Longden Avenue in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29560
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 13, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 13, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Fires
Arson
Item ID
29744AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Monrovia High School arson fire closes theater but show "Hairspray" goes on at Arcadia Performing Arts Center.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34384
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 4, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 4, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Performing Arts Center (Auditorium)
Arson fires
Fernando, Andrew
Monrovia High School
Item ID
34577AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Firefighter receives third degree burns in Monrovia arson fire. Arcadia Fire Captain Thomas Devlin was injured in fire at a business at 335 West Chestnut Avenue in Monrovia on December 26, 2015. Suspect commits suicide.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34416
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 31, 2015
Pages
p. 1, 13
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 31, 2015
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Department
Arson fires
Devlin, Thomas
Item ID
34608AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A 19-year-old man who was killed in a house fire in Arcadia was identified as Cheng Ming Dai of San Gabriel. A 16-year-old remains in critical condition and may be arrested and charged with arson. The house was located at 130 West Longden Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29561
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 15, 2005
Pages
p. A2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 15, 2005
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Fires
Arson
Dai, Cheng Ming ("Edward")
Item ID
29745AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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