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Two Eco-terror Suspects Plead Not Guilty to Charges by Associated Press KATU, December 20, 2005

EUGENE, Ore. - Two people arrested earlier this month on ecoterrorism charges were arraigned in federal court Monday.

Kevin Tubbs faces up to 20 years if convicted of a 1998 arson at a Washington state Agriculture Department office in Olympia.

And Chelsea Gerlach faces up to 25 years. That's if she is convicted of toppling a Bonneville Power Administration transmission tower in 1999.

Both pleaded not guilty.

Their attorneys said they would ask for the two to be released because there is a lack of hard evidence.

They say the only evidence the government has provided so is the statements of two informants who took part in the attacks.

But a federal prosecutor replied he would begin providing more than a thousand pages of evidence by the end of the week.

Chelsea Gerlach is 28 and is from Portland. Kevin Tubbs is 36 and lived in Springfield. They pleaded not guilty.