Biography
Irish republican activist convicted in federal court in the 1982 "Brooklyn Five" case for conspiring to ship surface-to-air missiles to the IRA in Northern Ireland. Held at FCI Otisville in New York. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
Initial custody separated from later sentence
June 21, 1982 arrest followed by detention pending $250,000 bail; subsequent discharge remains unresolved.
Source: UPI, June 21, 1982, contemporaneous arraignment and bail report. Initial bail release is not a final discharge from a later prison sentence. An arrest-site record is not automatically a prison-admission record.
Verified federal endpoint without assuming continuous custody
The official BOP locator returns GABRIEL MEGAHEY,04679-054, not in BOP custody as ofJune27,1988. The number and Otisville placement are individually printed in the original Summer1988 Breakthrough roster, printed page51. The January21,1985 contemporary report says his prison sentence began inSeptember1984. The first bail discharge and exact later remand remain unresolved. The verified later federal endpoint is documented separately rather than paired with the initial1982 detention to fabricate continuous imprisonment. Official locator; record limitations. No exact counter is created.