(KRON) — A Berkeley animal activist was convicted Wednesday by a Sonoma County jury for stealing four chickens from a local poultry slaughterhouse in 2023.
Zoe Rosenberg, 23, was convicted of a felony charge of conspiracy, two misdemeanor counts of trespass, and one count of tampering with a vehicle. The verdict came after a seven-week long trial. She faces five years in prison.
Rosenberg visited the Perdue-owned Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse without authorization on May 21, 2023, and then weeks later on June 13. During those visits, she allegedly attached GPS devices to 12 different farm delivery vehicles, took the chickens off a vehicle and left with them…