Biography
Peg Millett (Margaret Millett) was an Earth First! activist from Prescott, Arizona and a member of the small EMETIC affinity group. On May 30, 1989 she was surrounded with Mark Davis and Marc Baker in the Arizona desert by some 50 FBI agents in the THERMCON sting; she escaped through the underbrush, hitchhiked back to Prescott, and was arrested the next day at the Planned Parenthood clinic where she worked. She pleaded guilty to attempting to destroy an electrical transmission line used in interstate commerce, was sentenced to 3 years in federal prison, and was ordered to pay $19,821 in restitution.
Earth First! activist arrested in the 1989 EMETIC sting (Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy) for conspiracy to sabotage power lines to nuclear facilities in the Southwest. Convicted in federal court in Phoenix and incarcerated under register #32118-008. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
The June 21, 1989 Earth First! Journal reported that Peg Millett remained jailed without bond after the late-May arrests. This was pretrial custody, before the later 1991 sentencing and prison term. A possible July 5 hearing was reported for Millett only; the source does not establish an actual release date or a continuous custody period through 1991.
Birth-year source
- Los Angeles Times, September 20, 1991 — identifies Margaret “Peg” Millett as 37 at sentencing, supporting 1954 as her birth year.
The June 21, 1989 Earth First! Journal reported that Peg Millett remained jailed without bond after the late-May arrests. This was pretrial custody, before the later 1991 sentencing and prison term. A possible July 5 hearing was reported for Millett only; the source does not establish an actual release date or a continuous custody period through 1991.
The Fall 1992 directory individually lists Margaret Millett, already recorded as Peg Millett’s full-name variant, under federal register 32118-008 at the federal prison camp in Phoenix, 37900 North 4th Avenue, Department 1785. This supplies a missing historical prisoner number and contemporaneous correspondence location for the existing Earth First! case. No current address, transfer day, release day or served-time total is inferred.
