The Animal Liberation Front claimed credit this week for breaking into and damaging a laboratory facility owned by Sierra Biomedical, but a spokesman for the company says it believes that a current or former employee is likely responsible for the damage.
Sierra Biomedical spokesman Christopher DiFrancesco told the Associated Press that the company suspects an insider because a) the terrorists knew how to bypass the security system, and b) some areas of the lab appeared to have been deliberately left untouched.
While the ALF claimed it destroyed virtually ever piece of equipment in the lab, DiFrancesco said that in fact only about 25 percent of the equipment was damaged and there was little or no destruction of research.
Police and the FBI are currently fingerprinting and interviewing current and former employees of the lab, but have made no arrests.
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Lab thinks employee probably the vandal. Ben Fox, Associated Press, November 14, 2001.