Biography
Anthony Hayne was one of five men arrested in 2012 after a Federal Bureau of Investigation undercover operation targeting a plot to bomb the Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge, a bridge spanning the Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Cleveland. Prosecutors described the group as self-identified anarchists seeking a political statement against government and corporate power; investigators said the “explosives” were inert because they were supplied through the sting operation.
Hayne pleaded guilty in 2012 and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, and he was sentenced later that year to six years in federal prison.
Release precision reviewed October 12, 2026: United States v. Hayne, Sixth Circuit No. 20-3367 (December 1, 2020), confirms release from the original prison term in July 2017. No exact day is supplied, so month precision remains and the 1,888-day calculation from a July 1 storage placeholder is removed. The opinion also describes separate later supervision-revocation imprisonments; these do not imply uninterrupted custody from 2012 or alter the original term's endpoint.
