THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, August 8, 1995 TAG: 9508080290
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY CINDY CLAYTON, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS LENGTH: Short : 37 lines
Four anti-nuclear protesters were arrested Monday after they cut through a fence at Newport News Shipbuilding, pretended to be employees, then vandalized a nuclear submarine under construction, officials said.
The two women and two men, members of the protest group Plowshares, cut through a wire security fence on 50th Street near Huntington, said Jerri Dickseski, a spokeswoman for the shipyard.
The protesters pretended to be shipyard employees by using fake identification badges, then threw blood onto the Greenville, a Los Angeles class fast-attack submarine.
They were caught by shipyard security guards about 6:20 a.m. and turned over to Newport News police.
Arrested were: Michelle Naar-Obed, 39, of Baltimore; Amy Moose, 30, of New York City; Rick Sieber, 47, and his son, Aaron Sieber, 21, both of Philadelphia.
The four, all identified by police, were charged with trespassing and destruction of property and were being held in the city jail. Their bail was set at $6,500.
Dickseski said a similar incident occurred in April 1993 when members of the same protest group climbed aboard a submarine, covered it with blood and dented the deck with hammers.
Dickseski said one member of Monday's group - Michelle Naar-Obed - was involved in the 1993 incident.
KEYWORDS: PROTESTERS ARREST TRESPASSING PLOWSHARES SHIPYARD by CNB