Former Alt-Weekly Reporter Heads to Prison Early
By AAN Staff
march 8, 2007 10:49 am
Lacey Phillabaum, a
former staff writer for The Source Weekly and C-Ville Weekly, entered a federal detention center in January, six months before she will be sentenced for her role in torching a $4 million University of Washington horticulture facility, the Hook reports. Phillabaum
pleaded guilty to three counts of arson in October, and faces three to five years in prison. "She's really eager to put this behind her," says friend James Johnson. The Hook also reports that friends of Phillabaum have set up an
informative website about her in part "to counter the radical left-wing blogs that have accused her of being a snitch."