Editing Abbie Hoffman (section)

===Arrest and flight===
Hoffman was arrested on August 28, 1973, for intent to sell and distribute cocaine. He always maintained that undercover police agents entrapped him into a drug deal and planted suitcases of cocaine in his office. In the spring of 1974, Hoffman skipped bail, underwent cosmetic surgery to alter his appearance, and hid from authorities for several years.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/04/13/Abbie-Hoffman-60s-activist-dead-at-52/3166608443200/ |title = Abbie Hoffman, '60s activist, dead at 52|publisher=[[United Press International]]|date=April 13, 1989}}</ref>

Some believed that Hoffman made himself a target. In 1998, [[Peter Coyote]] stated:

{{blockquote|The FBI couldn't infiltrate us. We did everything anonymously, and we did everything for nothing because we wanted our actions to be authentic. It's the mistake that Abbie Hoffman made. He came out, he studied with us, we taught him everything, and then he went back and wrote a book called ''Free,'' and he put his name on it! He set himself up to be a leader of the counterculture, and he was undone by that. Big mistake.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.petercoyote.com/latimes.html |title=The Call of the Wild|first=Louise|last=Steinman |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=June 4, 1998|access-date=December 4, 2013}}</ref>}}

Hoffman lived under the name Barry Freed in [[Orleans, New York#Communities and inhabited locations|Fineview, New York]], near [[Thousand Island Park, New York|Thousand Island Park]], a private resort on the [[St. Lawrence River]]. He helped coordinate an environmental campaign to preserve the St. Lawrence River.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.savetheriver.org/ |title=Save the River! |publisher=Savetheriver.org |access-date=October 23, 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081016010928/http://www.savetheriver.org/| archive-date= October 16, 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> Hoffman also was the travel columnist for ''Crawdaddy!'' magazine. On September 4, 1980, he surrendered to authorities, and he appeared the same day on a pre-taped edition of ABC's ''20/20'' in an interview with [[Barbara Walters]].<ref name="barbara_walters">
{{Cite web| last1 = Hoffman| first1 = Abbie| last2 = Walters| first2 = Barbara| title = Sept. 4, 1980: Abbie Hoffman Interview| website = [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]| date = September 4, 1980| url = https://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/sept-1980-abbie-hoffman-interview-12811519| access-date= August 22, 2012}}</ref> Hoffman received a one-year sentence but was released after four months.