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Vincent Kay

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:Connecticut
Time Imprisoned:
5 Months 29 Days
Support
Anti-War Anti-Nuclear Plowshares Movement
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Biography

Vincent Kay was a house painter and poet from New Haven, Connecticut, and a member of the Covenant Peace Community. After his Plowshares activism he became a beekeeper, maintaining roughly 450 hives across the region under the brand "Swords into Plowshares Honey," sold in local Connecticut stores, restaurants, and Yale's dining halls; he processes the honey at an East Rock workshop.

Case

Charges: Criminal mischief; conspiracy; criminal trespass (Trident Nein action, Electric Boat shipyard, Connecticut)
Arrested: Jul 3, 1982
Incarcerated: Jul 3, 1982
Released: 1983
Sentence: Up to one year in jail; shared $1,386.67 restitution to the Navy. Verdict as recorded: Yes — jury verdict (October 1, 1982)
Convicted: Yes