Woman allegedly threatened government informant in anti-RNC group

by LarryDeezell | September 10, 2009 at 10:46 am

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Karyanne Marie Kibby a former Minneapolis woman is facing trial for an alleged email threat to kill a government informant, she now resides in Houston and is free on a $10,000 unsecured bonds.

indicted by a federal grand jury in Austin, Texas, in June on suspicion of retaliating against Brandon Darby, the community activist-turned-informant who helped federal prosecutors win convictions against two Texas men who planned to bomb the Republican National Convention in St. Paul last year.

The alleged threat was made Jan. 10, which was two days after one of the men, Bradley Neal Crowder, 24, had just got a plea bargain with federal prosecuters in Minneapolis. Crowder had confessed his role in the plot to build Molotov cocktails and attack the GOP convention on September 2008.

Both men, Crowder and David Guy Mckay, 23, were involved in a Austin-based activists group that take part in street demonstrations. Building eight Molotov cocktails and not using them, was credited to Darby. But Darby was clamed to betray his longtime friends, Crowder and Mckay, by the Austin protest community.

The single-count indictment says Kibby "did knowingly engage in conduct threatening bodily injury" to Darby. It says she sent an e-mail that threatened his life ""for giving information to a law enforcement officer," namely the FBI.

Unbeknownst to them at the time, the FBI had infiltrated the group with Darby, nationally known for his community activism

Mckay had testified after Crowder's plea that Darby "entrapped" him and said that "had it not been for Darby's urgings, I never would have built the Molotov cocktails."

Crowder was sentenced to two years in prison and is scheduled for release next May. McKay was sentenced to four years in prison, and is due to get out in April 2012.

Kibby could spend 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if found guiltly.

She was released to the custody of her father, identified in court papers as Joe S. Kibby, and a federal magistrate told her she had to undergo any "mental health treatment/ counseling" that the U.S. Pretrial Services office deems necessary.

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