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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.07.2007
A Tucson judge ordered Thursday that two protesters, including a Catholic priest, spend the holidays in jail on federal charges of trespassing at Fort Huachuca.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Héctor C. Estrada decided Franciscan priest Jerome Zawada of Las Vegas and Frances Elizabeth Lamb of Bend, Ore., should remain jailed without bail.
Trial is scheduled for Feb 4.
Zawada, 70, and Lamb, 69, were jailed Tuesday after pleading not guilty to charges that they illegally entered Fort Huachuca while protesting military intelligence training there Nov. 18. Fort Huachuca is about 75 miles southeast of Tucson.
Military officials said they wanted to be arrested and trespassed despite warnings.
Prosecutors say Zawada and Lamb are flight risks because they have failed to heed court orders in other jurisdictions.
Capt. Evan Seamone said Lamb is accused of blocking traffic in Bend while protesting the Iraq war, and that she has a history of trespassing at Fort Benning, Ga., to protest the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
As a condition of release on her own recognizance in Oregon, Lamb had agreed not to commit any other crime while awaiting trial.
Seamone also told the court that among Zawada's decades-long record of resistance to nuclear weapons and war was an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court for an anti-war arrest in Washington, D.C.
The defendants, who say they acted on social conscience, knelt in prayer when military officials stopped them at Fort Huachuca.
● Contact reporter Stephanie Innes at 573-4134 or sinnes@azstarnet.com.
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