News: Medford (GWEN Site Protest - 1993)
Transcriber: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surname: Breneman
----Source: The Star News (Medford, WI) 10/18/2018
Originally published in the Star News, October 20, 1993
Seven anti-nuclear activists and two members of a Chicago-based ABC News
television crew were arrested Monday afternoon during a protest at the Air
Force’s GWEN tower site five miles east of Medford.
According to Taylor County Sheriff Bill Breneman, all nine face charges of
criminal trespass. Criminal trespass is a class A misdemeanor, which carried a
possible penalty of up to nine months in jail and/or a $10,000 fine. Because the
trespass was on property owned by the federal government, Breneman said the
charges could be upgraded to a federal offense.
He added that it is possible they may also be charged with criminal damage to
property.
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