Biography
Ronald David Cole, also Ron Cole, was prosecuted for four machine-gun offenses connected with the Colorado First Light Infantry militia. The original FBI report gives his March26,1998 sentence. Alex Heard’s firsthand1999 WIRED account describes interviewing him inside FCI Englewood and ongoing jail visits and prison correspondence, independently establishing sustained actual US imprisonment. A predicted April discharge or halfway-house transfer is not an actual release. FBI and contemporary reporting conflict between May1 and May2 for the1997 arrest; only May1997 MONTH precision is entered. No exact prison admission or sentence-derived duration is inferred.
Ronald David Cole, also Ron Cole, was prosecuted for four machine-gun offenses connected with the Colorado First Light Infantry militia. The original FBI report gives his March26,1998 sentence. Alex Heard’s firsthand1999 WIRED account describes interviewing him inside FCI Englewood and ongoing jail visits and prison correspondence, independently establishing sustained actual US imprisonment. A predicted April discharge or halfway-house transfer is not an actual release. FBI and contemporary reporting conflict between May1 and May2 for the1997 arrest; only May1997 MONTH precision is entered. No exact prison admission or sentence-derived duration is inferred.
