Teen Gets Prison for Animal Activism Arson
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A teenager who admitted setting fire to an animal husbandry building at Brigham Young University on behalf of the Animal Liberation Front was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.
Harrison David Burrows, 18, could have been sentenced to as much as 20 years after pleading guilty to destruction of property by fire for the July 8 blaze at BYU’s Ellsworth Farm on the Provo campus.
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