{Madison, West Virginia}...West Virginia State Police arrested 34 year old Peter Bryan Garcia Tuesday in Madison and charged him with failing to register as a sexual offender. Garcia was required to register for life as a convicted sex offender after being convicted in Florida in 2002 on a charge of using the Internet to solicit or attempt to solicit a child for sex. Garcia pleaded guilty this week to trespassing after he and other RAMPS, Radical Action for Mountain People's Survival, members chained themselves to heavy equipment during a protest of surface mining at Hobet Mining in Lincoln County on July 28th. Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Protester Charged With Failure To Register As Sex Offender
{Madison, West Virginia}...West Virginia State Police arrested 34 year old Peter Bryan Garcia Tuesday in Madison and charged him with failing to register as a sexual offender. Garcia was required to register for life as a convicted sex offender after being convicted in Florida in 2002 on a charge of using the Internet to solicit or attempt to solicit a child for sex. Garcia pleaded guilty this week to trespassing after he and other RAMPS, Radical Action for Mountain People's Survival, members chained themselves to heavy equipment during a protest of surface mining at Hobet Mining in Lincoln County on July 28th. 