a peaceful conclusion to the armed stand-off. After several calls during which more time was requested, early on the morning of the fourth day of the siege, Arkansas State Police entered the compound and escorted the remaining members out without further bloodshed. Women and children had previously been evacuated to nearby motels. Charges In federal court, Ellison and most of the CSA's leaders were charged with illegal weapons possession and racketeering. In September 1985, Ellison, Kerry Noble, and four other CSA members (Gary Stone, Timothy Russell, Rudy Loewen, and David Giles) were sentenced to serve lengthy federal prison terms. In an Arkansas federal court, a seventh CSA member, Stephen Scott, pleaded guilty to charges that he dynamited a natural gas pipeline near Fulton, Arkansas in 1983, and as a result, he was also sent to prison. Ex-CSA member Kent Yates also pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to make and transfer automatic weapons silencers. Ellison received the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison after he was convicted on federal racketeering and weapons charges. However, in 1987, Ellison was released after he agreed to testify against the leader and six senior members of the Aryan Nations. All seven men were arrested and indicted on charges of sedition. The jury found all of the defendants not guilty on all of the charges. Upon his release from federal prison, Ellison moved to Elohim City. Richard Wayne Snell, the man who shot and killed the police officer and a pawn shop owner, was sentenced to death by lethal injection, which was carried out on 19 April 1995, the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. Possible ties to the Oklahoma City bombing There are several claims which state that the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was tied to the "New Day" teachings of Elohim City. However, no proof of such a connection has been established. Elohim City was assembled to gather "prophets of the New Day". Elohim City's Leader Robert G. Millar envisioned himself to be the "Shepherd of Shepherds" who was traveling to numerous alternative societies, many of which were and are still communes. His ambition was to unite these underground organizations. He appeared at the Padanaram Settlement, in southern Indiana on several occasions, but contrary to reports, the members of the Padanaram Settlement did not concur with the radical callings of either Millar or Ellison, who made