The federal case against a Bellingham woman responsible for placing shunts along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad in November 2020 has officially closed, ending the two-year saga that brought questions of ecoterrorism and an underground anarchist collective to Whatcom County.
Thirty-year-old Ellen Reiche was arrested Nov. 28, 2020, after BNSF police received a motion alert and a still photograph from the train tracks near Cliffside Drive, north of downtown Bellingham. Wh
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