Protester says Y-12 break-in worth the prison time; Boertje-Obed arrives in Knoxville after release
Source: Knoxville News-Sentinel
Greg Boertje-Obed turns 60 years old Monday, and the best birthday gift he got was his freedom.
Looking thin and a bit tired and sporting a new pair of jeans courtesy of the federal prison system, Boertje-Obed arrived in Knoxville shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday following a 20-hour bus ride from Kansas — where the spent the last 14 months serving time in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.
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Boertje-Obed is a bit puzzled as to why he ended up in Knoxville following his release from Leavenworth. When prison officials talked to him about his court-ordered release, he told them he wanted to go to Duluth, Minn., where his wife, Michele Naar-Obed, lives. That seemed to be the plan, but he was later given a bus ticket to Knoxville — where he and the others were tried in U.S. District Court in 2013.
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Rice, who served time at a federal prison in Brooklyn, N.Y., reportedly was spending time with family following her release, and Walli, who’s been incarcerated in Pennsylvania, is now with friends in Washington, D.C.
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During an interview at the Greyhound Bus Station in Knoxville, Plowshares protester Greg Boertje-Obed said his release from federal prison this weekend was a “big surprise.” He said attorneys had told him that the appeals process, even after the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction on sabotage charges, might take a couple of months to play out.
