"Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, environmental activists with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, turned themselves into the Baton Rouge Police Department Thursday to be booked on counts stemming from a plastic pollution awareness event that took place more than seven months ago.

Rolfes was booked with terrorizing, a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. McIntosh was booked with principal to terrorizing. The women are accused of menacing a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry with a file box full of plastic pellets, also called nurdles, found in Texas bays near a plastic manufacturing facility owned by Formosa Plastics.

A police detective called a lawyer representing the pair to alert them that there was a warrant out for their arrest."

Sara Sneath reports for the New Orleans Times-Picayune June 25, 2020. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Louisiana Environmental Activists Charged With “Terrorizing” for Nonviolent Stunt Targeting Plastics Giant" (The Intercept) [3]

"2 Louisiana Environmentalists Face ‘Terrorizing’ Charges" (AP) [4]

"US Climate Activists Charged With 'Terrorizing' Lobbyist Over Plastic Pollution Stunt" (Guardian) [5]

"These Louisiana Activists Are Facing ‘Terrorizing’ Charges For A Stunt They Pulled Six Months Ago" (Grist) [6]