What is the difference between animal rights advocacy and the liberation of World War II concentration camps? None, if you are Meredith Lowell, who uses the Facebook alias Anne Lowery. The Daily News reports that Lowell/Lowery, 27, was the target of a sting operation conducted by the FBI last November after the Cleveland Heights woman advertised for a hit man to shoot or slit the throat of a random fur-wearer.
An FBI affidavit filed with the U.S. District Court in Cleveland maintains that Lowery offered to pay $830 to $850 for the hit and identified the ideal candidate as someone living in northeast Ohio. The document further states that an undercover FBI employee posing as a possible hit man entered into an email correspondence with Lowell, who offered him $730 in jewelry or cash for the killing of a victim of at least 12 years but "preferably 14 years old or older." The killing was to take place outside a library near a playground in her hometown.
In one email, Lowery wrote:
You need to bring a gun that has a silencer on it and that can be easily concealed in your pants pocket or coat…. If you do not want to risk the possibility of getting caught with a gun before the job, bring a sharp knife that is (at least) 4 inches long, it should be sharp enough to stab someone and/or slit their throat to kill them. I want the person to be dead in less than 2 minutes.
Lowery stipulated that she needed to be near the site when the slaying took place so she could distribute "papers" afterward. She also expressed her desire to be arrested so as to call attention to her beliefs and “get out of the home she shared with her parents and brothers who eat meat and eggs and use fur, leather and wool.”
Another email offered into evidence quotes Lowell as saying that she sees nothing wrong with "liberating" animals from fur factory farms and laboratories since "soldiers liberated people from Nazi camps in World War 2." In still another, she criticize a new aquarium in Cleveland, saying "it is wrong for animals to be taken against their will and put into their (equivalent) of a bathtub."
Lowell was ordered held by U.S. Marshals Service pending a hearing next Tuesday to determine whether she will be given the opportunity to post bail or be detained without bond pending resolution of the case.
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