Mar 21, 2008 12:40 pm US/Pacific
Former SLA Member Sarah Olson Back In Custody
LOS ANGELES (CBS) ―
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Kathleen Soliah wipes a tear after her family was introduced by a defense attorney at a Los Angeles courthouse 14 July, 1999. Soliah, who has been living under the name Sarah Jane Olson, was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical 1970s group
Rick Meyer/AP
A Department of Corrections spokeswoman says former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sarah Jane Olson, who was released from state prison Monday after having served half of a 12-year murder and conspiracy charge, is back in custody.
Agency spokeswoman Terry Thornton would give no details Saturday as to why Olson was detained days after she was freed on parole from a Central California Prison. Thornton did say there were "a lot of developments in the case." Olson was taken into custody as she tried to fly out of Los Angeles International Airport late Friday, CBS station KCBS-TV reported.
Olson, 61, was freed Monday from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla after serving six years in prison for trying to bomb police cars in the 1970s. She plead guilty to the attempted bombings in 2001.
Olson had been given permission from her state probation officer in Palmdale to fly to Minnesota to visit her family, and state corrections officials said
Thornton confirmed that Olson was still in custody at midday on Saturday. "Let us get to the bottom of this story, there is more here than what you have heard," she said.
The SLA was an urban guerrilla group best known for kidnapping newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. The group started in 1973
when no more than a dozen white, college-educated children from middle-class
families adopted a seven-headed snake as their symbol and an ex-convict as
their leader. Their slogan: "Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the
life of the people."
Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, vanished soon after she was
charged with the attempted bombings. She was able to reinvent herself
as a Minnesota housewife and evade capture for more than two decades.
Olson was arrested in 1999 after FBI agents learned of a tip from "America's Most Wanted."
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