Priya Sawheny pleaded guilty to two counts of trespassing arising from demonstrations in May 2018 and June 2019.  She was sentenced to 100 hours of community service to be completed in Sonoma County.  She is restrained from the proximity of the Sunrise Farm and the Reichardt Duck Farm where the crimes were committed.  Wayne Hsiung a leader of Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) faces two counts of conspiracy and trespassing.

Over the years DxE has illegally entered farms and processing plants and removed poultry allegedly subject to, in their opinion, “cruelty” The organization claims that California laws give them the right to “rescue animals in distress”. Stealing chickens from trailers or breaking into poultry houses is entirely different from an emergency rescue of a dog from an overheated parked car.  We have not heard the last from this pestilent group of misguided zealots.