PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man charged in a deadly 1975 bank robbery blamed on members of the Symbionese Liberation Army on Wednesday waived extradition to California.

"I just want to get down there as soon as possible," Michael Bortin told a Multnomah County judge.

Bortin, 53, is among five people who were charged with murder and robbery last week for the crime in Carmichael, Calif.

Also charged are former SLA members Emily Harris and William Harris, Sara Jane Olson and James Kilgore, who has been a fugitive since the 1970s.

Prosecutors say all of the suspects but William Harris were inside the Carmichael bank when Myrna Opsahl was shot trying to deposit a church collection. The robbery netted the SLA about $15,000.

Bortin, a woodworker in Portland, has never hidden the fact that he was a supporter of the SLA in the 1970s. His wife, Josephine, is Olson's sister.

Bortin was an anti-war activist in California of the 1960s. In 1972, he was charged with possession of explosives and spent 18 months in jail.

"I was about to bomb a building over the Vietnam thing," he told The Oregonian in 1999. "I never denied that."

He admitted that he became a supporter of the SLA soon after he got out of jail.

Patricia Hearst, the newspaper heiress who joined the SLA after being kidnapped by the radical gang, said Tuesday that she is ready to testify against the Harrises, Bortin, Olson and Kilgore.

Hearst told CNN's Larry King she would portray them as "extremely dedicated revolutionaries who wanted to bring down the country."