21 Facts About Rod Coronado

Rodney Adam Coronado was born on July 3,1966 and is an indigenous American animal rights and environmental activist known for his militant direct actions in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Rod Coronado led the Animal Liberation Front's Operation Bite Back campaign against the fur industry and its supporting institutions in the early 1990s, which was involved in multiple firebombings.

Rod Coronado was jailed another eight months in 2004 for sabotaging an Arizona mountain lion hunt and was targeted under an anti-terrorism law in 2006 for having recounted details of his Michigan State incendiary device in a public setting.

Rod Coronado served an additional year for the incendiary device charge and an additional four months for a probation violation.

Since 2013, Rod Coronado has been involved in gray wolf conservation in the contiguous United States.

Rod Coronado founded Wolf Patrol, a nonprofit that monitors treatment of wolves and reports illegal wolf hunting.

Rod Coronado was born in 1966 of Pascua Yaqui Indigenous ancestry and raised in California.

Rod Coronado joined the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-whaling activist direct action group, as a teenager.

Rod Coronado designed and led the Animal Liberation Front's early 1990s campaign against the fur industry and its supporting research institutions, known as Operation Bite Back.

In 1995, Rod Coronado was sentenced to 57 months of jail, three years probation, and a $2 million fine.

Rod Coronado had said that he was not involved in the attack apart from serving as a spokesperson for the Animal Liberation Front, and took the lesser charge of aiding in the attack to avoid a trial and drop charges from other attacks.

Only 25 years later did Rod Coronado admit to being the attack's sole perpetrator.

From 2006 to 2007, Rod Coronado served eight months of a ten-month federal sentence.

Years prior, in August 2003, Rod Coronado gave a speech in San Diego on activist rights that the FBI recorded.

Later in 2006, before the incendiary device case went to court and while serving time for the mountain lion case, Rod Coronado wrote an open letter from prison renouncing violence as a means for social pressure in consideration of how legal efforts and prison time had affected his life, family, and young children.

Rod Coronado had become known for his illegal direct actions and longstanding public advocacy for militant tactics, with prominent recent appearances on national television and speaking at an American University.

Rod Coronado pled guilty and in March 2008 was sentenced to a year of prison in exchange for other dropped cases and to "move on with [his] life", having already committed to a changed outlook on violence.

The next year, a judge sent him back to prison for four months after Rod Coronado was found to have friended activist Mike Roselle on Facebook in violation of his probation.

Rod Coronado has been involved with grey wolf conservation in the contiguous United States since 2013.

Rod Coronado founded Wolf Patrol, a non-profit environmental group that monitors treatment of wolves and reports illegal wolf hunting.

Rod Coronado was married in 2007 and has two children: a son born in 2001 and his wife's daughter, born prior to their partnership.