The Family was originally discovered during an FBI investigation called Operation Backfire. Rebecca Rubin, also known as "Little Missy," was listed as "armed and dangerous" by the FBI for her alleged involvement in groups that led two of the biggest eco-crimes in U.S. history -- the 1998 bombing of a Vail, Colo., ski resort and a 2001 explosion at an Oregon power plant. Rubin is associated with Operation Backfire, the FBI's code name for a series of 20 federal arson crimes committed by the groups -- based largely in the Pacific Northwest -- between 1996 and 2001. Toymaker Mattel's Rebecca Rubin doll has no association with Rubin the ecoterrorist.Rubin turned herself in at the Canadian border with Washington November 2012.VideoVideo: 2011 Member of "The Family" arrested in China on drug charges - information on cell structure.
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