Biography
Ken Mayers was arrested on September 15, 2007.
Veterans For Peace board member Ken Mayers described overnight police custody following the September 15, 2007 Capitol antiwar protest.
Veterans For Peace board member Ken Mayers described overnight police custody following the September 15, 2007 Capitol antiwar protest. Overnight custody after the September 15, 2007 Capitol antiwar protest.
Original source, PDF pages 326, 328, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335.
Memorial dates and portrait; photographer uncredited. NR206.
The Nuclear Resister’s contemporaneous compilation individually names Ken Mayers 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 trial reports identify Ken Mayers and Tarak Kauff as U.S. military veterans arrested at Shannon Airport on March 17, 2019 after entering the airfield to inspect aircraft associated with the U.S. military. The contemporaneous March 2019 account describes their detention from March 17, followed by remand in Limerick Prison, and reports their actual physical departure from jail at about 12:35 p.m. on March 29. It explicitly describes twelve days in prison, matching twelve elapsed days between those documented dates. A later May 4, 2022 retrospective described thirteen days; the structured custody dates and twelve-day counter use the more precise contemporaneous account. The further months spent in Ireland while their passports were withheld are not counted as imprisonment. March 2019 arrest, remand and March 29 physical-release updates.
On May 3, 2022 a jury acquitted them of criminal damage and trespass with intent to commit an offense but convicted them of interfering with airport operation, management or safety. They had pleaded not guilty to all charges. Judge Patricia Ryan imposed a fine on May 4; the report gives €10,000 for the two defendants without specifying an individual allocation. Tony McGillicuddy prosecuted the case. The fine and later return for trial do not establish any additional period of imprisonment.
May 4, 2022 sentencing and actual-custody report; May 3 verdict and preceding trial reports.
Nevada Desert Experience’s March 31, 2016 account individually names Ken Mayers among eight people arrested at about 7:50 a.m. while blocking the main commuter gate at Creech Air Force Base. It explicitly states that all those arrested were taken to the Las Vegas Metropolitan County Jail. The four people conducting a second-gate meditation were not arrested and are a separate group. The report gives no individual charge, physical release date or complete served duration; fifteen minutes describes the traffic delay, not custody. The Nuclear Resister, March 31, 2016.
