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Robert Andersen

AKA: Robert Anderson
Released
Gender:Male
Era:1980s
Support
Irish Republicanism Anti-Imperialism Irish Republican Army
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Biography

Robert Andersen Jr. of Gloucester was convicted in the American prosecution concerning the 1984 Valhalla arms shipment. UPI's contemporary June 30, 1987 report distinguishes his three-year arms term from a concurrent four-year drug term. These were not successive terms. His actual arrest, admission and release dates remain unverified; the seizure of the boat was not his arrest.

Individual sentence distinguished from boat seizure and custody

UPI's June30,1987 report, reviewed as indexed text after direct access was denied, dates sentencing and distinguishes Andersen's concurrent arms and drug terms. The district court's findings explicitly say Andersen was not arrested at the October16,1984 seizure. The authorized BOP name search returned three unbridged identities; no release date or portrait is borrowed from them.

Case

Charges: Arms trafficking.
Sentenced: Jun 30, 1987
Sentence: Three years, concurrent with four years on other charges.
Judge: Joseph Tauro
Convicted: Yes