Earth First! activist files complaint for 1998 death

N O R T H C O A S T E A R T H F I R S T !

For immediate release
March 18, 2005
Contact: Shunka Wakan @ NCEF! Media (707) 822-1513


Criminal homicide complaint filed against Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Co.
Former sheriff, district attorney, homicide detective also named

Eureka, CA-On Thursday, March 17, 2005, North Coast Earth First!
activist Shunka Wakan, filed a criminal homicide complaint against
Maxxam Corporation, of Houston, Texas, and Pacific Lumber Company
(PL), of Humboldt County, California, for the death of David "Gypsy"
Chain. Chain was killed on September 17, 1998, when a
Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Co. logger felled trees in the direction of a
group of Earth First! activists. The complaint was filed with the
Humboldt County Sheriff's Department.

Also included in the complaint were former Humboldt County
sheriff Dennis Lewis, former district attorney Terry Farmer, and
former homicide detective Juan Freeman, for criminal conspiracy to
conceal homicide.

"I believe that David Chain's death was no mere 'accident,'
and that re-opening the investigation would reveal both an act of
violence, on behalf of Maxxam/PL, and a blatant cover-up, on behalf
of the former sheriff, district attorney, and homicide detective."

Interviews and copies of the complaint are available through the
North Coast Earth First! Media office, and are also online, at
http://www.northcoastearthfirst.org.


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