Biography
Mark Scibilia-Carver is a peace activist from Trumansburg, New York who participated in the October 2012 protest at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base near Syracuse, where activists trespassed to protest the U.S. drone warfare program. Hancock trains pilots for MQ-9 Reaper drones that carry out lethal strikes in Afghanistan and other countries. Scibilia-Carver was convicted of disorderly conduct and sentenced to 15 days in Onondaga County Jail in 2013.
Initial Hancock custody, October 25, 2012
The Upstate Coalition statement dated October 25, 2012 named Mark Scibilia-Carver among thirteen people still held in jail late that afternoon after a blockade of Hancock Field near Syracuse. The statement reported trespass and disorderly-conduct charges and bail between $250 and $1,000. Four other named participants had already been released on their own recognizance. It does not establish the physical release day for the thirteen still held. This initial October 2012 custody must not be extended through later 2014 sentencing or conflated with other protest cases. No new release date or measured days imprisoned are inferred from this report.
Dismissal conditional on service. NR203/204.
The March 4, 2024 Electric Boat report and reproduced New London Police media release individually name this participant among five arrested for blocking vehicle access. Police reported first-degree trespass and disorderly-conduct charges and release of all five on non-surety bonds. The March 15 court date was scheduled, not proof of a completed hearing. No jail admission, overnight term or imprisonment-day total is inferred.
Source: The Nuclear Resister, report 0081.
Upstate Drone Action’s same-day report names Mark Scibilia-Carver among six people arrested and taken to jail on September 24, 2019 while standing at Hancock Field’s main gate in Syracuse. Their protest followed a U.S. drone strike that killed Afghan pine-nut workers. The report does not establish the individual charge, jail location, court outcome or release date.
Upstate Drone Action statement reproduced by The Nuclear Resister, September 24, 2019.
Upstate Drone Action names Mark Scibilia-Carver among eight people arrested at Hancock Airbase on June 20, 2019. Ed Kinane’s participant account says the group was handcuffed, held at the sheriff’s north station, then taken to the downtown Syracuse Justice Center, booked and placed in jail clothing. In the early evening, public defenders entered not-guilty pleas before a judge identified only as Murphy. All eight faced trespass and disorderly-conduct violations and misdemeanor obstruction of government administration. After returning to the holding cell they were physically released on their own recognizance sometime after 10:30 p.m. that same day. No conviction, sentence or numerical time-served total is established here; the scheduled June 25–26 hearings were prospective.
Upstate Drone Action and Ed Kinane, reproduced by The Nuclear Resister, June 20, 2019.
The Upstate Drone Action report and Tom Joyce’s first-person account describe Judge David Gideon dismissing the remaining violation charges against Mark Scibilia-Carver and his co-defendant on April 28, 2022 in DeWitt, in the interest of justice. These charges arose from their June 2019 blockade at Hancock Air Base. Stand-by counsel Sujata Gibson is identified. This reports a later disposition of the existing 2019 prosecution, without supplying a physical jail admission, discharge or measured custody duration.
The October 25, 2012 participant report individually names Mark Scibilia-Carver among thirteen Hancock air-base protesters still held in jail late that afternoon after DeWitt Town Court hearings. All seventeen arrestees had been charged with trespass and disorderly conduct and served with protection orders concerning Earl A. Evans; the report says four other people were released on recognizance. It gives no final release date or completed duration for Mark Scibilia-Carver. This is the initial pretrial custody reported that afternoon.
The September 25, 2017 Upstate Drone Action account individually names Mark Scibilia-Carver among seven people arrested at Hancock Air Force Base while delivering an indictment and blocking the entrance with a large dollar-sign prop. The report states that all seven were released within an hour and charged with trespass and disorderly conduct. It announces future October arraignments, without establishing any jail admission, conviction or sentence. No complete day of imprisonment is inferred.
