Biography
Stephen Dear was arrested during an antinuclear protest at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor on March 2, 2020.
The Nuclear Resister names Stephen Dear, also called Steve Dear in the same report, among four people arrested by Navy security after crossing the blue property line at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor on March 2, 2020. They were taken into custody, issued trespass citations and released shortly thereafter. This was part of an antinuclear Pacific Life Community action. The reported statutory maximum penalties were potential penalties, not imposed sentences. No jail admission or completed custody duration is established.
The account individually names Stephen Dear among the demonstrators removed from the roadway by Washington State Patrol officers at Bangor on 2019-08-05. The reported citation was Pedestrians on roadways (RCW 46.61.250). No jail admission, imposed prison term or full day of imprisonment is established by this report.
The March 2020 first-person community statement reports that Stephen Dear and Samuel Yergler were arrested at a December 2019 sit-in at the Oregon governor’s State Capitol office opposing the Jordan Cove pipeline, spent the night in jail, and prosecutors later did not file charges. No exact arrest, prison-admission or discharge day is supplied; the overnight account is not converted into a numerical duration.
Photo: native portrait crop from the individually captioned “Steve Dear” photograph at the March 2, 2020 Bangor action, photographed by Felice Cohen-Joppa.
The Nuclear Resister, March 3, 2020; Original captioned photograph.
The March 2, 2020 participant statement reproduced by The Nuclear Resister says Stephen Dear and Charles Smith were also arrested for trespassing at the Nevada nuclear test site the previous year. This establishes a separate 2019 arrest, with no exact day supplied. Its report of two days in jail applies to Smith, not Dear; no jail admission, release or duration is assigned to Dear from it. Original participant account in the March 3, 2020 report.
