MAN SEEN REMOVING BOLTS FROM TRANSMISSION TOWER

(Anderson, CA) From the Record Searchlight:

Federal investigators issued an alert across the West Coast Tuesday for a man seen removing bolts from a major transmission line tower, apparent sabotage that one official said "smacks" of an act of domestic terrorism.

Lugging large wrenches, the man on Monday pried off at least 18 bolts - each more than an inch in diameter - before witnesses intervened, said Anderson Police Chief Neil Purcell.

The witnesses chased the suspect onto Interstate 5, where he sped south into Tehama County and disappeared.

The FBI stated that the description of the man is similar to that of another person who was seen removing bolts at another tower near Klamath Falls, Ore., earlier in the day.

There is only one way to deter these radical eco-terrorists and that is the imposition of long, long prison sentences.