Elliott Adams

Veterans For Peace president Elliott Adams was held overnight after the September 15, 2007 Capitol antiwar protest, according to Ken Mayers. Overnight custody after the September 15, 2007 Capitol antiwar protest.

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The Nuclear Resister’s contemporaneous compilation individually names Elliott Adams among five people arrested by Otero County deputies at Holloman Air Force Base on April 19, 2023 and charged with misdemeanor obstruction of a roadway. Its participant report says all five pleaded not guilty, were booked at the sheriff’s office and taken directly to Magistrate Court, and were released on their own recognizance. The accounts explicitly distinguish this processing from jail admission: all five bypassed jail. No completed confinement duration is established. The May 15 trial was still prospective; Michael Suggs was named as Mayers’s scheduled judge, not as the judge of a completed trial.

Contemporary arrest, news and participant accounts.

The April 2, 2014 report names Elliott Adams and Richard Gilchrist as arrested after crossing onto Beale Air Force Base on April 1. They were detained for about an hour, then released before Adams’s talk that evening in Grass Valley. No statutory charge, jail admission or completed full day is supplied. The report describes Adams as a past national president of Veterans For Peace, from New York, then touring nationally and conducting unarmed peacekeeping training with the Meta Peace Team. These are historical reported roles, not a claim about a current office. The Nuclear Resister, April 2, 2014.

The October 25, 2012 Hancock report individually names Elliot Adams among thirteen protesters still being held in jail late that afternoon after arrests at the air base gates and hearings in DeWitt Town Court. All seventeen arrestees were charged with trespass and disorderly conduct and served with protection orders concerning Earl A. Evans; four others were released on their own recognizance. The report does not give this person’s exact release day or a completed custody duration. Bail amounts are not treated as proof of release.

Contemporary participant report, The Nuclear Resister.

The June 28, 2012 press release individually names Elliott Adams among fifteen people arrested at Hancock Air Base at 1:41 p.m. It reports release without bail for the participants other than three separately named people held for prior community-service noncompliance. No individual charge, separate jail admission or completed custody duration is given for Adams.

The Nuclear Resister, contemporary report.

The contemporary account of the June 26, 2013 White House Guantánamo protest specifically identifies former Veterans For Peace president Elliott Adams as arrested while attempting to chain himself to the fence, then released without charge. It does not identify his individual release day, a jail admission or detention duration. Participation in the hunger strike is separate from custody. Contemporary report.

The April 24, 2012 Hancock Field report explicitly identifies Elliott Adams in its caption as being arrested during the April 22 anti-drone demonstration. It reports that most street protesters were cited under a DeWitt permit ordinance, but does not individually identify Adams’s charge or establish a jail admission, release date or completed detention duration. The unnamed man separately taken into custody and bailed is not identified as Adams. The accompanying arrest photograph is credited to Dennis Nett/The Post-Standard.

Contemporary report.

The sheriff’s roster reproduced with the April 22, 2011 Hancock Field protest report individually named Elliott Adams among the people arrested outside the base in the anti-drone demonstration. The article reports trespassing and obstruction-of-justice charges. It describes handcuffs, a wait, and boarding a bus intended for Justice Center processing; it does not establish an individual jail-admission or release time.

Sources: The Nuclear Resister, report 893.