PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Seattle man to community service but no extra time in custody for arsons years ago, rejecting the government’s call for a prison term. In April, 54-year-old Joseph Dibee pleaded guilty to the 1997 arson of a slaughterhouse in central Oregon that butchered wild horses and sold the meat in Europe. He also pleaded guilty to the 2001 arson of a Bureau of Land Management wild horse corral in Litchfield, California. Dibee was part of a group of about a dozen animal rights and environmental activists in setting fires around the West. He was a fugitive for over a decade before his 2018 arrest in Cuba.
Eco-activist sentenced to community service, no prison time
