ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, June 22, 1996 TAG: 9606240060
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: HELENA, MONT.
SOURCE: Associated Press
After three months in a Montana jail, Theodore Kaczynski traded a bulletproof vest for a tweed jacket Friday and agreed in court to be moved to California to face charges he's the Unabomber.
Kaczynski, 54, waived his right to fight a Justice Department request to move him to Sacramento, where he faces charges in four of the attacks in the terrorist's 18-year campaign to smash the modern industrial order. The U.S. Marshal Service said he would arrive Monday night.
Kaczynski wore the vest while being transferred to the courthouse. It was removed once he entered court.
Kaczynski last appeared in court April 19 when defense attorneys tried to dismiss the lone charge against him because of news leaks. U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell denied that motion.
With Kaczynski facing a federal indictment, Lovell dismissed the single charge that had held him since his arrest April 3 at his cabin northwest of here, possession of bomb-making components.
Federal prosecutors in Helena moved to dismiss the charge ``without prejudice,'' meaning it could be refiled.
In Sacramento, Marshal Jerry Enomoto said Kaczynski would arrive shortly before 7 p.m. Monday at Mather Field, a former U.S. Air Force base now used by air freight companies, and then taken to the Sacramento County Jail.
Kaczynski, 54, was indicted Tuesday in Sacramento on 10 counts of transporting, mailing and using bombs. The indictment involves four Sacramento-linked attacks, two of them fatal. In all, the Unabomber is believed responsible for 16 attacks that killed three people and injured 23.
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