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Malheur Defendant Jason Blomgren Sentenced To 2 Years Probation

by Conrad Wilson Follow OPB | Aug. 28, 2017 12:15 p.m. | Portland

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Jason Charles Blomgren
Courtesy of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office

Malheur refuge defendant Jason Blomgren was sentenced Monday to two years’ probation.Federal prosecutors said Blomgren was a low-level defendant who spent about 15 days at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon. Federal prosecutors said he performed guard duty at the refuge and used social media to recruit others to join the occupation.

He was arrested Feb. 11, 2016, in Nevada, Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Gabriel said in court.

Blomgren, who lives in North Carolina, was originally scheduled to be a witness for the government during the first trial that included occupation leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy. But he was never called to testify.

He pleaded guilty last year to a felony conspiracy charge.
“I took full responsibly for my actions. I have since day one,” Blomgren told U.S. District Court Judge Robert Jones in court. “I want to move on with my life.”

Jones ordered Blomgren to pay $3,000 restitution. Jones, citing documents filed with the court, said Blomgren has $3.83 to his name.

U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown, who has overseen two trials and other legal proceedings stemming from the 2016 occupation, hasn’t made a final determination about a $78,000 joint restitution proposal between the U.S. Department of Justice and 13 defendants in the case.

Jones said Brown told him to agree to the $3,000 restitution in Blomgren’s sentencing. Given it’s an all or nothing proposal, that order would seem to indicate Brown will agree to the joint restitution proposal.

Blomgren’s hoping to get a job welding on a pipeline in North Carolina said attorney Robert Rainwater.

“Don’t foul up or you’ll be back here before me,” Jones told Blomgren.

http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns...ing-probation/

Cincinnati-area man pleads guilty in armed standoff with feds in Nevada



WCPO Staff1:32 PM, Oct 10, 2017

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LAS VEGAS -- A Cincinnati-area man pleaded guilty Friday to a charge related to an armed standoff with federal workers in Nevada.

Peter Santilli Jr., 52, used his vehicle to block a convoy of Bureau of Land Management officers and civilian employees who were attempting to remove cattle owned by rancher Cliven Bundy from federal public lands in the Bunkerville area in 2014, authorities announced.

After Santilli blocked the convoy, others then surrounded the officials and were able to "threaten vehicle occupants by force, violence and fear, inducing the officers to leave the place where their duties were required to be performed," according to a news release from the Department of Justice.

Santilli pleaded guilty to conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer. He faces up to six years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Last year, Santilli was also arrested in Burns, Oregon, after federal officials said he was part of the armed group who spent more than three weeks occupying a national wildlife refuge.

Two of Bundy's sons, Ammon Bundy and Ryan Bundy, were also part of that group.

Charges against Santilli in that case were later dismissed. The Oregonian reported Santilli never stayed overnight at the refuge.

Sentencing for the Nevada case is scheduled for Jan. 11, 2018.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/...feds-in-nevada

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