Biography
Toby Blomé is a retired physical therapist, former teacher, and organizer with San Francisco CODEPINK. She began organizing the annual Creech Air Force Base drone protests in 2009, started recurring protests at Beale Air Force Base in 2010, and joined a 2012 peace delegation to meet Pakistani survivors of U.S. drone attacks. She has repeatedly taken part in nonviolent actions at military bases. After an April 8, 2026 protest at Holloman Air Force Base, she spent two nights in custody and was released after arraignment; the charge was conditionally dismissed in May.
October 16, 2024 Creech arrest: detained one hour, cited and released. NR205.
Blomé’s first-person report on the April 8, 2026 Holloman action names Judge Green at the subsequent Zoom hearing. It says she and Matt Dodson entered not-guilty pleas. The mid-May pretrial hearing described there was still a prospective listing in that report.
Source: The Nuclear Resister, Five arrested at New Mexico drone base, participant report.
The November 2024 report describes Toby Blomé’s October 16, 2024 blockade arrest at Creech Air Force Base: she was detained for one hour, then cited and released. This supports release on the same day; the hour is not converted to a day of imprisonment or a jail-admission date.
Source: The Nuclear Resister, report 52.
The May 1, 2024 Nuclear Resister report individually names Toby Blomé among six people arrested while blocking the main gate at Holloman Air Force Base on April 24, 2024. It says all six were released that afternoon after arraignment. This establishes same-day release; it supplies no clock times or measured prison term. Existing admission fields, later legal outcomes and custody totals are preserved. Contemporary report.
The October 20, 2022 Nuclear Resister report, reproducing Shut Down Creech’s account, individually names Toby Blomé among Denise Sellers, Toby Blomé and Edwina Vogan arrested after a nonviolent entrance-road blockade at Creech Air Force Base on October 19. It reports that all three were briefly detained, cited for assembling to disturb peace and released. Brief processing is not converted into a full day in jail, and no prison-admission time or complete custody duration is established.
The December 9, 2021 Nuclear Resister compilation documents two separate arrests. During the September 26–October 2 Creech actions, Blomé was arrested at Tuesday’s vigil, charged with making false statements and obstructing an officer, and taken to Clark County detention center. It reports over 24 hours alone in a cell before Wednesday-evening release. At a November 23 pretrial hearing, the district attorney dropped those Nevada charges.
The separate Beale Air Force Base action resulted in handcuffing, fingerprinting on base and release after about two and a half hours. The two retained accounts disagree on November 21 versus 22, so only November 2021 is assigned to arrest and release. The report says formal charges had not yet been brought; the citation is not assigned an invented statutory count. Neither brief detention is converted to a numeric day or a continuous term linking the two episodes.
Toby Blomé’s contemporary account individually names Toby Blomé among ten people arrested during the October 2, 2019 blockade at Creech Air Force Base. Police transported them to Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, charged them with failure to disperse and released all ten with citations later that day. Four women spent five additional hours in custody after refusing a scanner, but the report does not identify those four individually. The November 12 arraignment was still prospective.
The Nuclear Resister, October 8, 2019, including organizer Toby Blomé’s account.
The Nuclear Resister’s contemporaneous compilation individually names Toby Blomé 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.
The Nuclear Resister’s March 27, 2013 report names Toby Blomé among eight people arrested during an anti-drone die-in that blocked traffic at Creech Air Force Base that day. The participants were charged with disturbing the peace and released with a future June court date. The report does not establish this person’s exact release day, jail admission, later verdict or custody duration. Contemporary report.
In her March 2, 2019 first-person report, Toby Blomé describes crossing onto Beale Air Force Base with Fred Bialy on Friday, March 1, carrying a “Let Venezuela Live” sign. Military police handcuffed both, detained them on the spot for about an hour, and cited and released them. The accompanying contemporaneous report identifies a federal trespass citation. This was brief on-site detention, not an overnight jail stay; the possible six-month penalty was not an imposed or served sentence.
First-person report and contemporary reporting, The Nuclear Resister.
The October 31, 2018 report individually names Toby Blomé among four people arrested during the October 30 anti-drone blockade at Beale Air Force Base. It explicitly reports that all four were held for two and a half hours in military jail cells on the base and faced misdemeanor trespass charges. This establishes same-day physical detention, not a completed prison day. The six-month maximum was a possible penalty, not an imposed sentence or time served. No later verdict or present status is inferred.
The April 2, 2016 report individually names Toby Blomé among eighteen people arrested during the April 1 Creech Air Force Base anti-drone blockades. It reports fifteen jaywalking citations and three federal-property trespass citations without identifying which person received which charge. The two arrest waves are also not allocated by name. The article says all except Brian Terrell had been released by publication, without separately dating this person’s physical release. Terrell’s April 4 release is not copied to others; no individual charge, jail admission or complete custody duration is inferred. The Nuclear Resister, April 2, 2016.
The October 30, 2012 report names Toby Blomé among nine people arrested and charged with trespass after blocking two gates at Beale Air Force Base. The four-hour gate closure measures the protest, not a jail stay. The report gives no individual jail admission, release day, trial outcome or imposed sentence.
Toby Blomé’s participant report individually names Toby Blomé among seven people arrested during the October 4, 2018 Creech Air Force Base blockade. It reports arrest at about 8 a.m., detention in the Las Vegas jail and release at about 8:30p.m. on October4. The report does not state the individual statutory charge or a court disposition. These actual dates identify a separate event from later Creech and Beale cases; no completed served-day total is added.
The April 28, 2015 Beale Air Force Base report individually names Toby Blomé among sixteen anti-drone demonstrators arrested at the main gate. It reports that all were released and faced misdemeanor trespassing charges. The dated contemporary report supports same-day release, but supplies no actual jail admission, imposed sentence or complete served duration. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The April 30, 2013 Beale Air Force Base account individually names Toby Blomé among five people arrested around 8 a.m. and briefly held on misdemeanor allegations after a gate blockade. The report does not specify a statutory charge, individual jail admission or physical release day. Its possible six-month maximum is not an imposed sentence or time served. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
Toby Blomé’s firsthand account names Toby Blomé as one of the two people arrested at Creech Air Force Base during the October 6, 2017 mock-wedding drone protest. Both were transported to Las Vegas and held in jail for about nine hours, then released while the early evening sun was still shining. This supports same-day admission and release, without a whole-day served total. The article does not specify their statutory charges, pleas or later disposition. Blomé reports overcrowding and cold conditions in her cell and describes an officer threatening longer detention after she said goodbye to other prisoners. These are her reported experiences. The later soft blockade on October 10 ended after a warning without arrests and is not another case.
The October 31, 2017 Beale report individually names Toby Blomé as arrested while blocking morning traffic at the base on Tuesday, October 17, during anti-drone demonstrations held October 16–17. It states that she was later cited and released and faced federal trespass charges. It does not establish an exact physical release day, jail admission, plea, verdict or sentence. This is distinct from the separately documented October 6 Creech arrest.
The January 2016 Occupy Beale report individually identifies Toby Blomé among five people arrested at Beale Air Force Base on January 12. It says they were detained for about two hours, cited and released. The report does not name an individual statutory charge or independently establish a jail admission or a completed day in prison. A later publication date is not used as the arrest date. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The February 28, 2017 Beale report names Toby Blomé among four people arrested for trespass and released with citations that day. The February 27 ashes action was a separate episode. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The November 10, 2016 Creech report names Joseba Zulaika and Toby Blomé among four identified members of a five-person arrest group taken to Las Vegas Jail and released by the end of that day. It says one unspecified arrestee was held several hours longer on a prior matter; it does not identify that person. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The October 25, 2016 Beale report names Toby Blomé, Shirley Osgood, Pamela Osgood and Mauro Oliveira as handcuffed for about an hour, cited for trespass and released that day. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The September 27, 2016 Beale report names Sharon Delgado, Shirley Osgood, Cathy Webster, Chris Nelson and Toby Blomé as arrested during the morning protest and subsequently released with citations on the base. Earlier case dismissals mentioned in the article do not establish the outcome of this particular arrest. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The August 16, 2016 Beale account names Toby Blomé, Michael Kerr, Fred Bialy, Shirley Osgood, Pamela Osgood and Flora Rogers as detained, processed and released within about an hour during the Peace Patrol action. Barry Binks spoke at the protest but was not among those arrested. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The April 2017 Creech report identifies Toby Blomé as arrested on April 27, with bail set at $2,000, and physically released at about 4 a.m. on April 28. Ron Mecklosky and Margeaux Temeltas were reported released the previous evening; their endpoints do not apply to Blomé. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The contemporary participant report names Toby Blomé among seven people arrested at Beale Air Force Base on June 28, 2016. The group was handcuffed and taken by military bus for on-base processing. It separately reports Michael Kerr briefly detained, handcuffed and cited during the June 27 Doolittle Gate vigil. Those are separate actions; the two-day vigil does not establish two days in jail. The report supplies no individual physical-release endpoint.
Sources: Contemporary report.
The September 29, 2015 Beale Air Force Base report individually names Toby Blomé among nine people cited for federal trespass after crossing the base boundary during the anti-drone action. Its discussion of earlier citation-and-release practices does not identify this person’s precise release date or detention duration. The October 13 court letters concerned earlier actions, not an established outcome for this arrest.
Sources: Contemporary report.
The March 6, 2015 Creech Air Force Base report individually includes Toby Blomé in its named arrest roster. The compilation reports trespass and roadway-related allegations and describes citation-and-release processing, but one person held on an outstanding warrant is unnamed. Neither that warrant detention nor an overnight stay is allocated to this person. The differing reported aggregate totals are retained without inventing an additional identity or completed custody duration.
Sources: Contemporary report.
