Pat Gros (born Patricia Helen Rowbottom in 1948) is an American political activist who, with her romantic partner Raymond Luc Levasseur, went underground for a decade as part of the United Freedom Front (UFF).
While living underground with rotating false identities and moving home frequently to avoid capture by a Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), Gros had three daughters.
They went underground, planning to rob banks to cover living expenses while bombing targets to protest against issues such as apartheid in South Africa and to support groups such as the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN, Armed Forces of National Liberation), which promoted independence for Puerto Rico.
They frequently relocated to evade capture by the authorities, living in towns across the states of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont.
Gros had to borrow a vehicle from the neighbour to pick him up and the family quickly abandoned their house in Cambridge, New York, moving to a farmhouse in Germansville, Pennsylvania.
In December 1981, there was an incident in which state trooper Philip Lamonaco was shot dead by either Tom Manning or the new UFF member Richard Williams.
[2] After the FBI became aware that Gros and Levasseur had children, photographs of their three daughters were added to the wanted posters; this move was condemned by Psychology Today.
It eventually featured agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) and police officers from the states of Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
[8] After being donated a mainframe computer by the Grumman Corporation, the JTTF used it to match a false identity presented by Gros when she was involved in a car crash several years earlier to a mailbox currently rented under that name in Columbus, Ohio.
[6][9][10] The Mannings fled from their house and stayed underground until the following year, when they were arrested after being traced from the serial numbers on a gun found in the Cleveland raid.
[9] Gros commented "Eight of us are charged with conspiracy to overthrow the US government by the use of force and we never had any Redeye missiles; we had no tanks; no helicopters; and no hundred million dollars.