Biography
Samuel Yergler spent a night in jail after a December 2019 protest at the Oregon governor’s office against a proposed gas pipeline.
The March 2020 Nuclear Resister report identifies Samuel Yergler, also called Sam Yergler, as one of those arrested with Stephen Dear during a December 2019 sit-in at the Oregon governor’s office in the State Capitol opposing the Jordan Cove liquefied natural gas pipeline. The account says they spent the night in jail and prosecutors later did not file charges. It supplies no exact December arrest day, jail intake or physical release endpoint. It explicitly says Yergler was not arrested or cited at the separate March 2, 2020 Bangor protest, where he displayed a banner; that later event is not assigned to him as an arrest.
The March 2020 community statement explicitly says Samuel Yergler and Stephen Dear were arrested at the Oregon governor’s State Capitol office during a December 2019 sit-in against the Jordan Cove pipeline and spent the night in jail. Prosecutors later did not file charges. This documents jail custody in 2019 but supplies no exact admission or physical release day, and the overnight account is not converted to numerical days.
The March 14, 2016 account names Sam Yergler as detained on the tarmac for several hours at the March 13 Davis-Monthan air show after flying a small peace-banner drone near a displayed Predator drone. He was released and escorted off base with a ninety-day ban-and-bar letter. Ninety days describes exclusion from the base, not imprisonment. The account does not establish a formal arrest, jail booking or criminal charge; a prediction of possible charges is not an outcome. The existing March 2020 source identifies Sam and Samuel Yergler performing the same uniquely described Bangor overpass banner action and supplies the December 2019 Oregon case already recorded here. The Nuclear Resister, March 14, 2016. Primary Sam/Samuel same-event identity corroboration, March 3, 2020.
