Bill Streit

AKA: Bill Frankel-Streit / William Frankel-Streit

Released

Date of birth:1955

Gender:Male

Race:White

Era:1990s

Inmate Number:#03809-052

State:Virginia

Time Imprisoned:

10 Months + 9 Months 16 Days

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Anti-Nuclear Anti-War Catholic Worker Movement

Biography

Dorothy Day Catholic Worker (Washington, DC); took part in the 1991 ANZUS Peace Force Plowshares at Griffiss AFB, Rome, NY.

Bill Frankel-Streit was an Atlantic Life Community / Catholic Worker activist who poured human blood on the Pentagon entrance during the Holy Innocents witness on December 30, 2002, on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Sentenced to 6 months in federal prison.

Catholic Worker and Plowshares peace activist arrested in a disarmament action against nuclear weapons systems and held in federal custody under register #03809-052. Convicted of federal sabotage and depredation of government property. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.

The August 6, 2025 Pentagon protest led to processing and release; the newsletter reports an October 16 guilty plea and $100 fine.

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Cases

FCI Fort Dix

Charges: Damage to government property - Holy Innocents witness, blood-pouring at Pentagon entrance

Arrested: Dec 29, 2002

Incarcerated: Dec 29, 2002

Released: Oct 14, 2003

Sentence: 6 months federal prison

Institution State: New Jersey

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Charges: Sabotage, depredation of government property — Plowshares action (BOP #03809-052)

Sentence: Federal prison term

Convicted: Yes

Institution State: California

Griffiss Air Force Base (Rome) — ANZUS Peace Force Plowshares

Charges: Destruction of government property (and related)

Arrested: Jan 1, 1991

Sentenced: Aug 20, 1991

Released: June 1992

Sentence: Twelve months prison, $1,800 restitution; released mid-June 1992 The Plowshares Disarmament Chronology, 1980-2003, page 46, reports ten months actually served. Release is recorded to June 1992 only; no exact day is established. Pretrial release on March 6, 1991 interrupted custody, so no continuous interval from the January arrest is assumed and no additional pretrial days are added to the reported total.

Convicted: Yes

Institution State: New York

Charges: Trespass; interfering with agency functions / refusing a lawful order — Pentagon

Arrested: Aug 6, 2026

Released: Aug 6, 2026

Sentence: Released after several hours of processing. October 2026 court appearances were scheduled; the report does not establish a conviction or jail sentence.

Charges: Interfering with agency functions / failure to obey a lawful order — Pentagon

Arrested: Mar 27, 2026

Released: Mar 27, 2026

Charges: Incommoding during a protest at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Arrested: Sep 28, 2000

Incarcerated: Sep 28, 2000

Sentence: Held overnight.

Bill Streit

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