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Emmy-award winning actor James Cromwell is going to be spending a week in an Orange County Jail.
The 77-year-old actor’s sentence is the result of his refusal to pay a $375 fine following his arrest during a protest in Wawayanda, New York.
Cromwell and six others were found guilty of obstructing traffic during a sit-in at the proposed future site of a natural gas-fired power plant owned by Competitive Power Ventures. The protesters say they are concerned that the CPV power plant’s carbon emissions could immediately harm the local environment and will accelerate global climate change.
Cromwell was one of three protesters who refused to pay the fine. “If we don’t stay together, nothing will change,” Cromwell told the Times-Herald Record after refusing to pay his fine (according to Variety). “Power to the people.”
Cromwell is a Star Trek alum who is best known to fans for playing Zefram Cochrane, the creator of the warp drive and a key figure in the history of the Star Trek universe, in the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact. Prior to the film,…
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