Biography
Jake Kreilick was a Native Forest Network activist who protested Australian woodchipping at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on July 13, 1994. In his signed contemporary account he described climbing onto the embassy carport with another activist, being taken to D.C. Central Lockup and spending 28 hours there, including a night in a holding cell. He reported that they were released after the Secret Service and a judge decided not to pursue the matter; no conviction is established.
Jake Kreilick was a Native Forest Network activist who protested Australian woodchipping at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on July 13, 1994. In his signed contemporary account he described climbing onto the embassy carport with another activist, being taken to D.C. Central Lockup and spending 28 hours there, including a night in a holding cell. He reported that they were released after the Secret Service and a judge decided not to pursue the matter; no conviction is established. No imposed sentence established. Kreilick personally reported 28 hours in D.C. Central Lockup, including overnight custody. No exact release day is derived from that duration.
Earth First! Journal, August 1, 1994, PDF pages 18 (printed pages 17).
His signed contemporary account documents the July 13, 1994 protest arrest and transfer to D.C. Central Lockup, with 28 hours actually spent there. The existing arrest date now also records the beginning of this jail detention. Without the arrest hour, 28 hours does not resolve an exact release calendar day; no rounded whole-day total is entered.
