Weekend Snowbowl protest results in arrests
One subject chains and locks himself to operating excavator
Flagstaff, AZ – On Saturday, August 13, at approximately 12:30 p.m., the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office received reports from U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement of a protest on Snowbowl Road. Forest Service officers found approximately 30-35 protesters had jumped into an open ditch of the water pipeline. Protesters fled from Forest Service officers, running across the road. They lined up and began to protest the pipeline and proposed snow making.
One subject ran up to a large excavator that was in operation and digging the trench for the pipeline. The subject reportedly jumped up and grabbed a hold of the excavator’s bucket, then chained and locked himself to the bucket.
A Snowbowl employee observed another subject enter the closed construction zone. When the employee took a picture of the subject, the subject approached the employee and became confrontational. The Snowbowl employee attempted to back out of the area, and the subject reportedly stood behind the employee’s vehicle refusing to let him drive away.
A third person was arrested after refusing to leave the closed construction area.
Arrested were:
Klee Benally, age 35 for Disorderly Conduct and Trespass
Mary Sojourner, age 71 for Disorderly Conduct
Rudy Preston, age 39 for Disorderly Conduct and Trespass
Responding agencies included: Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, Flagstaff Police Department, Arizona Department of Public Safety, and the U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement
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