Oliver Sachio Coe
Biography
Oliver Sachio Coe participated in the same August 1998 Colorado missile-site action as Daniel Sicken, joining an anti-nuclear protest that intentionally crossed into restricted space to make a public moral claim against nuclear deterrence and first-strike weapons systems. The action relied on symbolic property damage and ritualized “witness” practices common in certain faith-based resistance traditions, and it culminated in arrest at the scene.
Like Sicken, Coe was prosecuted federally under statutes treating the breach and damage as conspiratorial sabotage rather than civil disobedience. He was convicted and sentenced to federal prison (receiving a shorter term than Sicken in reported sentencing summaries), and the case remains an example of how anti-nuclear activists have been charged and imprisoned for actions framed as nonviolent but carried out at highly secured defense sites. Sachio Oliver Coe was one of two members of the Minuteman III Plowshares affinity group that entered Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silo N-8 near Greeley, Colorado on August 6, 1998 — the 53rd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima — and hammered on the silo cover and equipment. He was found guilty of conspiracy to destroy national defense property, sabotage, and destruction of government property. After he and Sicken told the judge they would not promise to return for January 1999 sentencing, their bond was revoked and they were taken into custody.
On August 6, 1998 — the 53rd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima — Daniel Sicken and Sachio Oliver Coe entered Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silo N-8 near Greeley, Colorado, and hammered on the silo cover and equipment. The action took the name Minuteman III Plowshares.
The Winter 1998–99 Nukewatch Pathfinder reports that Daniel Sicken and Sachio Ko-Yin (Oliver Sachio Coe) were convicted following a Denver trial beginning November 2, 1998 over their August Minuteman III Plowshares action in Colorado. It explicitly states that they were jailed before sentencing. January 20 was the announced sentencing date, and the possible more-than-twenty-year punishment was exposure, not time actually served. Source: https://www.laka.org/docu/magazines/nukewatch_pathfinder/1998-4-winter.pdf#page=5
The May 1999 Friends Journal report retrospectively records the February 18,1999 sentencing hearing for the August 6,1998 Colorado missile-silo action. It gives Daniel Sicken forty-one months and Sachio Ko-yin thirty months. John LaForge’s contemporary Nukewatch article names Ko-yin in the narrative and Oliver Sachio Coe with register 28361-013 in its mailing line, independently bridging that identity; the Tenth Circuit opinion names Daniel Harris Sicken and Oliver Sachio Coe, also known as Oliver Hydon, and confirms the respective 41/30 month concurrent sentences. The winter newsletter’s January 20 hearing was a future schedule, while March 5/9 are written judgment-entry dates. Neither replaces the actual February18 hearing. These are imposed sentences, not completed time served. Existing duplicate rows and their conflicting custody endpoints are retained for reconciliation; no intake is inferred from sentencing and no overlapping rows are summed as consecutive imprisonment.
