THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, July 28, 1994 TAG: 9407280495
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY PERRY PARKS, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: ELIZABETH CITY LENGTH: Short : 38 lines
The last two of the peace activists sentenced this month for damaging an Air Force jet are free to leave North Carolina after being temporarily released Wednesday.
Lynn Fredriksson, 30, of Baltimore, and Bruce Friedrich, 24, of Washington, D.C., walked out of jails in Elizabeth City and Edenton before noon and were greeted by friends from the Raleigh area.
Both must later surrender to federal authorities to complete the last few months of their sentences for hammering and spilling blood on an F-15E Strike Eagle jet at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro Dec. 7.
Fredriksson and Friedrich, who work with the poor and homeless, had been in custody since they and two others were arrested the night of the anti-war demonstration.
Longtime activist Philip Berrigan, 70, and Elizabeth City native John Dear, 34, also were found guilty of the action in April and sentenced July 6. Dear, now of Washington, D.C., was released Friday and is serving four and a half months in home confinement.
Berrigan, of Baltimore, was recently moved to Virginia to face sentencing for a separate demonstration.
Fredriksson was sentenced to 14 months with credit for time served. Supporters said she may be eligible to report to a halfway house rather than prison. Friedrich was sentenced to 15 months, also with credit for his seven months in jail.
All four activists also face three years of probation and were ordered to pay 10 percent of the $27,000 in damage that witnesses said the plane sustained. by CNB