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Judge releases animal-rights activist, Meredith Lowell, accused of soliciting hit man to kill fur-wearer

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Post by NiteSpinR Wed Feb 22, 2012 12:54 am

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February 21, 2012

Judge releases animal-rights activist, Meredith Lowell, accused of soliciting hit man to kill fur-wearer Fur10

Federal authorities say an Ohio woman who describes herself as an animal-welfare activist has been charged with soliciting murder in a plot to kill someone wearing fur.

Court records show 27-year-old Cleveland Heights resident Meredith Lowell appeared Tuesday in federal court in Cleveland and was ordered held by the U.S. Marshals Service pending a hearing next week.

Investigators say the FBI was notified in November of a Facebook page Lowell created with an alias offering $830 to $850 for the hit.

Investigators say an FBI employee posing as a potential killer learned via email correspondence Lowell wanted the victim to be at least 12 years old and wanted to be on site when the slaying took place so she could distribute "papers" afterward.

A defense attorney has declined to comment.

Federal authorities say an Ohio woman who describes herself as an animal-welfare activist has been charged with soliciting murder in a plot to kill someone wearing fur.Court records show 27-year-old Cleveland Heights resident Meredith Lowell appeared Tuesday in federal court in Cleveland and was ordered held by the U.S. Marshals Service pending a hearing next week.Investigators say the FBI was notified in November of a Facebook page Lowell created with an alias offering $830 to $850 for the hit.Investigators say an FBI employee posing as a potential killer learned via email correspondence Lowell wanted the victim to be at least 12 years old and wanted to be on site when the slaying took place so she could distribute "papers" afterward. A defense attorney has declined to comment.

Federal authorities say an Ohio woman who describes herself as an animal-welfare activist has been charged with soliciting murder in a plot to kill someone wearing fur.Court records show 27-year-old Cleveland Heights resident Meredith Lowell appeared Tuesday in federal court in Cleveland and was ordered held by the U.S. Marshals Service pending a hearing next week.Investigators say the FBI was notified in November of a Facebook page Lowell created with an alias offering $830 to $850 for the hit.Investigators say an FBI employee posing as a potential killer learned via email correspondence Lowell wanted the victim to be at least 12 years old and wanted to be on site when the slaying took place so she could distribute "papers" afterward. A defense attorney has declined to comment.

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Post by Wrapitup Wed Feb 22, 2012 1:34 am

An Ohio woman who compared animal-welfare work to the liberation of World War II concentration camps has been charged with soliciting a hit man to fatally shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer, federal authorities said.

Meredith Lowell, 27, of Cleveland Heights, appeared Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, where a magistrate judge ordered her held by the U.S. Marshals Service pending a hearing next week, court records show. One of her defense attorneys, Walter Lucas, declined comment when reached by phone after the court appearance.

Investigators say the FBI was notified in November of a Facebook page Lowell created under the alias Anne Lowery offering $830 to $850 for the hit and saying the ideal candidate would live in northeast Ohio, according to an FBI affidavit filed with the court on Friday.

The affidavit says an FBI employee posing as a possible hit man later began email correspondence with Lowell, and she offered him $730 in jewelry or cash for the killing of a victim of at least 12 years but "preferably 14 years old or older" outside a library near a playground in her hometown.

"You need to bring a gun that has a silencer on it and that can be easily concealed in your pants pocket or coat. ... If you do not want to risk the possibility of getting caught with a gun before the job, bring a sharp knife that is (at least) 4 inches long, it should be sharp enough to stab someone and/or slit their throat to kill them. I want the person to be dead in less than 2 minutes," says an email reprinted in the affidavit.

She told the undercover employee she wanted to be on site when the slaying took place so she could distribute "papers" afterward, the affidavit says. She hoped to be arrested so she could call attention to her beliefs and to get out of the home she shared with her parents and brothers who eat meat and eggs and use fur, leather and wool, investigators said.

Reprinted emails also say Lowell wrote that she sees nothing wrong with "liberating" animals from fur factory farms and laboratories since "soldiers liberated people from Nazi camps in World War 2."

She also criticized a new aquarium in Cleveland — saying "it is wrong for animals to be taken against their will and put into their (equivalent) of a bathtub" — and research by the Cleveland Clinic, where she said animals should be "liberated and put somewhere where they are not tortured."

Lowell faces a hearing next Tuesday to determine whether she will be given the opportunity to post bail or be detained without bond pending resolution of the case.

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Post by NiteSpinR Sat May 18, 2013 8:36 pm

February 27, 2013

An animal-rights activist, who was accused last year of soliciting a hit man to kill someone wearing fur in Cleveland Heights, is too mentally ill to stand trial, a judge has ruled.

U.S. District Judge Patricia Gaughan freed Meredith Lowell of Cleveland Heights earlier this month based on a psychological report that found her mentally incompetent to stand trial and not capable of being rehabilitated to competency.

Gaughan also ruled that Lowell’s mental illness prohibits her from possessing firearms, and ordered Lowell’s family to dispose of handguns, shotguns and rifles that were in the home the day she was arrested a year ago this month.

Lowell, 28, was being held at the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, which specializes in mental health services for female inmates.

Her arrest came after the FBI received a tip that someone on Facebook wanted to pay an assasin to kill someone wearing fur near the Coventry branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library, according to court documents.

The Facebook user, later identified as Lowell, said she wanted to be present during the killing and planned to hand out anti-fur industry literature at the scene of the crime, according to the documents.

An FBI agent, posing as a hit man, began an online correspondence with Lowell, according to the documents. In one message, she told the FBI agent: "I am paying you to kill one person wearing fur who is 12 or older (but hopefully at least 14 years, however 12 years old or older is fine.)"

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