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I was praying that the protest could be resolved without any deaths or injuries.

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Militia Members Oppose Calls For Calm After Oregon Death, Arrests

Militia movements advise their ranks against a call to arms, but members say that's exactly what's needed
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By Jacob Steinblatt on Jan 27, 2016 at 9:26 AM

A "patriot" at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (REUTERS)

Members of militia groups are opposing their organizations’ calls to keep calm after a man was killed and eight were arrested in connection with a weeks-long standoff at a wildlife refuge in Oregon. Militia members are hailing the man,identified as LaVoy Finicum, as a “martyr,” and posting a slew of aggressive statements across social media, Vocativ analysts discovered.

The developments threaten to further escalate an already tense confrontation.

“Time to lock and load,” a man posted on the Facebook page of the Three Percenters Club, a national militia movement. “Open season on BLM and FBI,” another posted.

Greg Bretzing, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Portland Division, said at a press conference on Wednesday that Tuesday’s operations were the “first steps” in removing militia members from the refuge, but that law enforcement “will continue to look for a peaceful conclusion.”

During Wednesday’s press conference, Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward made an emotional plea for the militia members to leave the refuge.

“This has been tearing our community apart,” he said. “It’s time for everyone in this illegal occupation to move on. There doesn’t have to be bloodshed in our community. If we have issues with the way things are going in our government, we have a responsibility to act on that in an appropriate manner. We don’t arm up and rebel.”
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The threatening remarks some militia supporters have been making on social media are in clear defiance of armed “patriot” groups’ calls for their members not to join the occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which has been ongoing since January 2. The Three Percenters Club posted on their official Facebook page a statement advising followers: “any of you wanting to go and get involved to stay away from the refuge I repeat stay away. Anyone who goes there is being arrested and charged by the Feds.” The Pacific Patriots Network, an umbrella group for militias in the northwest, ordered members to stand down, saying in a press release that “cooler heads must prevail,” and that the group “continues to support a peaceful resolution to the occupation of the refuge.”

Some militia members fiercely rejected that sentiment, Vocativ found. While authorities didn’t name the man who was killed on Tuesday during a traffic stop in which several people, including the leader of the occupation, were arrested, an official told CNN his name was LaVoy Finicum. News of his death flooded Facebook, where several people, including a member of the Nevada State Assembly, mourned him as a martyr and compared him to Jesus and Moses.

Finicum’s daughter, Thara Tenney, posted on her personal Facebook page that her father was shot by the police with his hands up, a claim that was repeated by the official Bundy Ranch Facebook page but was not independently verified.

One of the men detained alongside Ammon Bundy on Tuesday, Mark McConnell, uploaded a video to Facebook describing what he said he witnessedwhen Finicum was shot, Vocativ discovered. McConnell, who says he was driving the vehicle that Bundy was also in, claimed that Finicum attempted to run from the police, and when he encountered a police roadblock, charged at officers. McConnell said that Finicum was not on his knees when he was killed, countering claims to the contrary. “Don’t put speculation out there, don’t put nonsense out there,” he urged in the video.

One of the country’s largest militia groups, the Oath Keepers, has not made any official statement or order in response to Finicum’s death or the arrests, although many of the group’s followers urged action. Some compared Finicum’s death to “the shot heard round the world,” a reference to the start of the American Revolution in 1775.

Others, however, supported calls to stay away from the Oregon site. “Going there now will only get your ass in a sling. You won’t do anybody any good sitting behind bars,” someone on The Three Percenters Facebook page posted.

On Wednesday, the FBI and Oregon State Police initiated a “containment” of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a decision they say was “made out of an abundance of caution” and to ensure community and law enforcement safety. The containment involves checkpoints established along routes leading to and from the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, and signage ahead of those points. “Anyone who moves beyond that signage will be stopped, identified and asked (to) leave,” the FBI said. “Non-compliant people will be subject to arrest.”

Only Harney County ranchers who own property in the areas blocked off will be allowed to pass into the checkpoints, the FBI said, while authorities will confirm IDs and search vehicles of anyone coming out of the refuge.

http://www.vocativ.com/news/276240/m...death-arrests/

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

‘We the People’ petition White House to arrest Bundy

Online petition seeking 100,000 signatures

KOIN 6 News Staff

Published: January 23, 2016, 6:49 am Updated: January 23, 2016, 9:13 am

Mark Heckert of Puyallup said he studied at Oregon State and frequented the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge wants the militia out, Jan. 11, 2016 (KOIN)

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An online petition to President Barack Obama urges the president to “end the armed occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge immediately.”

“We the People” is the First Amendment platform hosted on the White House website for citizens to bring issues directly to President Obama’s attention. If a petition reaches a certain level of signatures, the White House will issue a response — but won’t necessarily act on it.


Ammon Bundy and other militia members met with the FBI at the Burns Airport before going into town for lunch, Jan. 21, 2016 (KOIN)

This petition, which also wants to know “why the area has not been isolated,” has garnered more than 16,000 signatures from their stated goal of 100,000.

The leader of the militia, Ammon Bundy, is the son of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who led an armed standoff with federal officials over cattle grazing on land around his ranch.

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Ammon Bundy and his militia took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on January 2. Others have joined since then in a stated ploy to get the federal government to return the land to Harney County. Most of the people in this militia are from other states.

On Saturday, two ranchers from other states are expected to rescind their land-grazing agreements with the federal government in a so-called signing ceremony at in the Malheur Refuge conference center. This signing ceremony “will double the amount of ranchers” standing up for their rights, militia spokesperson LaVoy Finicum said earlier this week.


Oregon Gov. Kate Brown outlines her 2016 policy agenda at a press conference at the State Capitol in Salem, Ore., on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. (Molly J. Smith /Statesman-Journal via AP)

Gov. Kate Brown sent a letter Thursday to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Comey, urging them “to end the unlawful occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as safely and as quickly as possible.”

In a statement Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley said it was “long past time for this illegal occupation to end and for the people of Harney County to get their lives back.”

The Democrat said he hopes authorities could peacefully resolve the situation and hold Bundy’s group accountable.

“Law enforcement inaction up to this point is an egregious violation of public safety and emboldens their erroneous assertions that the US Government has no Constitutional Authority,” the online petition states. “Please end the siege of the refuge and arraign Ammon Bundy as soon as possible.”

http://koin.com/2016/01/23/we-the-pe...-arrest-bundy/

Let me cut to the chase about this. This is about Environmentalists in Washington turning all Federal Land into "nature preserves" and running off ranchers! That is it in a nutshell. Oregon is a Liberal Utopia. The Judges, the Police, the Governor, the politicians--are all Liberals. The Federal Government is Liberal/Marxist---THEY ARE FOR ENVIRONMENTALISTS. If someone did some research, back behind all of this is Environmentalists. They hate ranchers! Liberals hate ranchers. This is about Liberals using the Government to confiscate Federal Lands and make them solely into Nature preserves and railroad ranchers off land they been ranching for over one hundred years. But don't wait around for the Marxist/liberal media to expose any of this. They are all in it.

It's just plain disgusting that's all. America is heading for Civil War. It is breaking up.

Federal judge denies release for 5 refuge occupiers, orders release for two others



Attorney Mike Arnold exits the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland, January 29, 2016 following a detention hearing for Ammon Bundy and other Oregon standoff leaders arrested this week. Bundy was not released on bail and his lawyers stated they would appeal that ruling next week. Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Staff

By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
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on January 29, 2016 at 5:59 PM, updated January 29, 2016 at 6:12 PM

A federal judge Friday denied release for five of 10 defendants in custody in Portland who are accused of conspiring in an armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge in Harney County – Ammon Bundy, brother Ryan Bundy, Ryan Payne, Jason Patrick and Dylan Anderson.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman found they were among the key players who took over federal property with a show of force, breaking the law from "day one,'' and then ignored orders to leave the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for nearly a month.

She rejected arguments that the occupiers' actions were a peaceful protest or they were being targeted because of their political speech. The judge pointed to their threatening statements on social media and obvious firepower. She agreed with prosecutors that the key players planned the action and didn't give up until they faced immediate arrest.

"Here the tactics were far too drastic,'' Beckerman said.

"Anybody who was there understood what the message was to the outside world.''

Ammon Bundy stood to address the court, saying his intent was never to start an "armed standoff.''

"It was about protecting individual rights as it pertained to land issues,'' he told the judge. He said he respected the court and her role, and called himself a federalist, who believes the federal government does play a role in protecting people from the outside world.

"I do love this country very, very much,'' he said, as his wife Lisa Bundy and father-in-law looked on from the second row of the courtroom gallery. "My only desire from the beginning was to preserve freedom for the people.''

But prosecutors argued that Bundy's actions showed he was not appropriate for release under any court-ordered supervision.

"Critically, the alleged crime was not born out of impulse—it was deliberate and designed to undermine authority at every stage,'' prosecutors Ethan Knight and Geoffrey Barrow wrote in a detention memo filed Friday. "As a result, each defendant appears before this Court having already demonstrated that no condition or combination of conditions could reasonably assure their appearance or the safety of the community.''

The judge did order Joseph O'Shaughnessy to be released under home detention and GPS monitoring, and Shawna Cox to be released with conditions once the occupation of the refuge is over.

Federal prosecutors immediately said they'd appeal O'Shaughnessy's release to U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Mosman on Tuesday.

Ammon Bundy's attorneys address the media on Jan. 29Mike Arnold and Lissa Casey, Ammon Bundy's attorneys, address members of the media outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in Portland on Jan. 29, 2016.

Beckerman was unable to decide whether or not to detain Pete Santilli, an independent broadcaster who provided what his lawyer described as "unfiltered'' video of the refuge takeover.

She said she wanted to examine more information and would make a decision by Monday.

Lawyers for Brian Cavalier and Duane Ehmer asked for more time to argue for their release, considering they were recently appointed. The judge delayed their detention hearings until Thursday.

O'Shaughnessy's defense lawyer Amy Baggio argued that O'Shaughnessy was not among the "key players'' and in fact said he objected to the Bundys' and their followers' plan to go to the refuge. And as a result, the Bundys' and the organizers felt he had betrayed them, she said.

"This guy is different. He's different from everybody else,'' Baggio argued.

She presented the court with receipts that showed O'Shaughnessy stayed at the Silver Spur motel in Burns during the first week in January. She said he never stayed overnight at the refuge, and only went there to "bear witness'' to whatever happened, considering the deadly outcomes in the past at Ruby Ridge and Waco, Texas. He did stay at a nearby RV site called The Narrows, his lawyer said.

"He'd go up to the refuge to talk some sense to the people up there,'' Baggio said. "He repeatedly said the occupation was wrong.''

Ten of 11 defendants accused of conspiring to impede federal officers from doing their work at the refuge through intimidation, threats and force appeared in U.S. District Court in Portland for their detention hearings.

Bundy and four other siege leaders were arrested Tuesday afternoon when federal agents and state police troopers stopped their vehicles as they were driving along U.S. 395 north of Burns to address a community meeting in St. Johns. Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, 55, was fatally shot by a state trooper after he sped off from the police stop, tried to get around a police blockade and drove into a snow bank. Police said he was shot and killed after he reached his right hand twice into his jacket, where he had a loaded 9mm handgun. Ryan Bundy, Ammon's older brother, was wounded.

Arrested Tuesday were Ammon Bundy, 40, of Emmett, Idaho, Ryan Bundy, 43, of Bunkerville, Nevada, Payne, 32, of Anaconda, Montana, Cavalier, 44, of Bunkerville, Nevada, and Cox, 59, of Kanab Utah, O'Shaughnessy, 43, of Cottonwood, Arizona, and Santilli, 50.

Patrick, 43, of Bonaire, Goergia, Ehmer, 45, of Irrigon, and Dylan Anderson, 34, of Provo, Utah,, were arrested Wednesday by the FBI at checkpoints outside the refuge as they were leaving.

Another man, Jon Ritzheimer, 32, of Peoria, Arizona, who surrendered to police in Arizona, is expected to be returned to Oregon for a future court appearance.

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-sta...release_f.html

'Leave us alone' - people in Oregon town tired of standoff

Nicholas K. Geranios and Martha Bellisle, Associated Press
Updated 10:23 pm, Saturday, January 30, 2016

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Photo: Nicholas K. Geranios, AP

A convoy of armored vehicles and SUVs rolls past a barricade on the road near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Ore., Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016. The remnants of an armed group occupying the refuge ... more


BURNS, Ore. (AP) — People who live in Burns, the small high desert town near a wildlife refuge that has been occupied by an armed group for a month, say they are sick of the disruption to their lives.

"We just want to go back to the way we were," Barbara Ormond, who owns a quilt store in downtown Burns, said Saturday. "We want everyone to leave us alone."

Four people occupying an Oregon wildlife refuge held their position Saturday and posted live videos describing their situation and reiterating their demand that they be allowed to leave with being arrested. The jailed group's leader, Ammon Bundy, and 10 others who were arrested earlier in the week remained in custody. Through his lawyer, Bundy on Saturday again called on the remaining occupiers to leave.

The FBI has said it's trying to resolve the situation peacefully.
While the standoff that originated over federal land-use policies has led to filled-up hotels and restaurants as police, protesters and media have flocked to the area, locals say the conflict is upsetting and pitting neighbor against neighbor.

"It's tearing the community apart," said Bonnie Angleton, who owns a gift shop downtown. "I care about the people who live here."

Kate Marsh, an artist in town, said many residents work for the government, while others have their livelihoods depend on government agencies. "There is some dissension in the community," Marsh said.

Authorities say Bundy, the leader of the group that seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, and others used the social media and other platforms to summon recruits to join their takeover.

Court documents against the 11 occupiers under arrest show FBI agents have scrutinized social media postings, interviews and online talk shows that have been made during the standoff that began Jan. 2.

Bundy and several other jailed leaders appeared Friday in federal court in Portland, where a judge denied their release.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman said Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and Ryan Payne pose a danger to the community, and she is concerned they would not follow orders to return to Oregon for criminal proceedings.

The only woman arrested so far in the standoff, Shawna Cox, will be allowed to go home while her case makes its way through the court system. But Beckerman said that won't happen until after the armed occupation ends.

Ammon Bundy's lawyer, Lissa Casey, said her client is not aligned with those remaining at the refuge near Burns and he wants to go back to his family.

Bundy and his followers took over the refuge to demand that the federal government turn public lands over to local control. They have complained about what they say are onerous federal rules governing grazing and mining rights across the West.

Court documents detail some of the evidence against the occupiers. The charges against the defendants say the refuge's 16 employees have been prevented from reporting to work because of threats of violence.

A criminal complaint filed earlier this week makes reference to an online video that showed Bundy saying the group planned to stay for several years. He called on people to "come out here and stand," adding: "We need you to bring your arms."

Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, the group's spokesman, was killed Tuesday night in a confrontation with the FBI and Oregon State Police on a remote road. Bundy and four others were arrested during the encounter.

At one point, a couple of dozen ranchers and other protesters were holed up at the refuge, but they began clearing out after the arrests and killing.

Lawyers for Ammon Bundy said they have recorded a phone call with their client telling the four people remaining at the refuge that it is "his authentic desire for them to stand down."

In the call released by his lawyers, Bundy said "go home to your families."

The FBI on Thursday released a video showing Finicum's death, to counter claims he did nothing to provoke his killing.

In the aerial video, Finicum is pulled over in his truck but then takes off in the vehicle and plows into a snowbank because of a roadblock. He gets out and has his hands up at first, then appears to reach toward his jacket pocket at least twice. He is shot and falls to the snow.

The FBI said a loaded handgun was found in the pocket.

http://www.chron.com/news/science/ar...of-6796244.php

JAN 31 2016, 10:50 PM ET

Shawna Cox, Arrested With Oregon Militants, Released From Jail

by TIM STELLOH

The only woman arrested with the armed Oregon protesters who occupied a wildlife refuge has been released from jail, records show.

Shawna Cox in a sheriff's booking photo last week. Oregon State Police / Multnomah County Jail

Shawna Cox, 59, is facing federal felony charges of conspiracy to impede federal officers from discharging their official duties through the use of force, intimidation or threats. She was released Friday from the Multnomah County Detention Center.

Cox was arrested Tuesday with several others — including protest leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy — during what authorities have described as a "traffic stop." Protest spokesman Robert LaVoy Finicum, 54, was killed during a confrontation with police and the FBI during the stop.

It was unclear Sunday why Cox was released.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman said Friday that Cox would be allowed to go home while her case proceeded — but only after the remaining militants left the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

As of Saturday night, NBC affiliate KGW reported, four holdouts were still there, posting video to YouTube that responded defiantly to Ammon Bundy's demand that they "stand down."

Top: Brian Cavalier, Ammon Edward Bundy, Joseph Oshaughnessy, Peter Santilli | Bottom: Ryan Bundy, Ryan Payne, Shawna Cox, Jon Ritzheimer MCSO | AFP — Getty Images

"This fight, it's a fight that's gonna keep going," said one of the men, David Fry.

Because Cox was in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, a Multnomah County jail official told NBC News that she didn't have the details of her release. Efforts to reach the service's Oregon district office Sunday night were unsuccessful.

Cox's husband, Don, told the Oregonian newspaper of Portland that he expected her home in Utah on Monday. The family planned to hire "a big expensive legal team" to fight the charges, he told the paper.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...d-jail-n508281

An Armed Occupation In Eastern Oregon

Prosecutors Bring Sealed Indictment In Bundy Case

by Conrad Wilson OPB | Feb. 3, 2016 1:43 p.m.

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Ammon Bundy, one of the sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, speaks during an interview at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Tuesday, Jan. 5.
Rick Bowmer/AP

Federal prosecutors managing the government’s case against Ammon Bundy and other militants involved in an armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge returned a sealed indictment against Bundy on Wednesday.

The prosecutors brought the indictment to Magistrate Judge Janice Stewart. Defense attorneys stated that they had not seen the indictment before Wednesday’s proceeding. Stewart ordered that prosecutors turn over a copy of the document to defense attorneys within the next 24 hours.

“I think we should be able to see the charges the government is alleging against our client,” said lead defense attorney Mike Arnold. “I think we should be able to see them now.”

Bundy and several other militants had been scheduled to appear in court for a pretrial hearing Wednesday, but those hearings were stricken from the court docket hours before they were scheduled to happen.

Prosecutors said Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Ryan Payne and other militants are named in the indictment.
Because the indictment handed down is sealed, the details of the charges are not available. The document could be partially unsealed sometime Thursday.

As of Wednesday, four armed militants remain engaged in a standoff with federal law enforcement at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns...in-bundy-case/

Feb 4, 2016 2:08pm EST

Four protesters still occupying Oregon wildlife refuge charged

PORTLAND, ORE. | BY SHELBY SEBENS


Anti-militia demonstrator Andrew Snyder carries a sign during a protest outside the Harney County Courthouse in Burns, Oregon February 1, 2016.
REUTERS/JIM URQUHART

Four anti-government activists still occupying a U.S. wildlife refuge in Oregon have been indicted along with 12 others previously arrested on charges of impeding federal officers during a month-long armed standoff at the compound.

The indictment, filed in federal court in Oregon and unsealed on Thursday, supersedes an earlier criminal complaint that charged protest leader Ammon Bundy and others with preventing officers and employees of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from discharging their duties by "force, intimidation, and threats."

Attorneys for the defendants were not immediately available for comment.

The occupation began Jan. 2, when Bundy, his brother Ryan and other followers took over the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in remote eastern Oregon to protest federal control of millions of acres of public land in the West.

The three-page indictment says the defendants blocked federal agents in the performance of their duties, brandished firearms and refused to leave the refuge and threatened violence against anybody who attempted to remove them.

It also says the protesters recruited others in person and over social media to join their ranks, and warned the sheriff of Harney County in the nearby town of Burns of "extreme civil unrest" if their demands were unmet, among other acts of intimidation.

The Bundy brothers and nine others were arrested last week in Oregon, most of them during a confrontation with FBI and state police on a snow-covered roadside where a spokesman for the group, Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, was shot to death. A 12th member of the group turned himself in to authorities in Arizona.

Two of those arrested have since been released on condition that they wear electronic tracking devices while awaiting trial, leaving 10 of the former protesters, including the Bundys, still in custody.

Their immediate fate has been clouded by the four holdouts among the group, who joined the protest after it started but have so far refused to end their occupation of the refuge.

A judge has cited the continuing standoff as a major obstacle to the release of at least some of those who remain in custody. An attorney for arrested protester Jason Patrick, named in the indictment, referred to the holdouts as "four idiots" at odds with his client's aims.

The indictment contains the same charges as those in the criminal complaint filed last month but avoids the need for prosecutors to seek a judge's determination that sufficient evidence exists to proceed to trial.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-or...-idUSKCN0VD2D5

Federal grand jury indicts 16 people in Malheur refuge takeover

By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on February 04, 2016 at 8:31 AM, updated February 04, 2016 at 10:07 AM

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Ammon Bundy and 15 others accused in the armed takeover of a federal wildlife refuge have been indicted in court on charges of conspiracy to impede federal officers through intimidation, threats or force.

A federal grand jury returned the indictmentsWednesday, and they were unsealed Thursday morning.

It accuses Ammon Bundy, the leader of the monthlong armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge outside Burns, and the other key players of conspiring to prevent employees of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from working at the refuge, taking over the property armed with firearms and intimidating the people of Harney County.

The alleged offenses began Oct. 5, when two of the defendants met with the Harney County sheriff to warn of "extreme civil unrest'' if their demands were unmet, according to the indictments.

The alleged co-conspirators are charged with occupying the federal property "while using and carrying firearms,'' threatening violence against anybody who attempted to remove them from the refuge, and using social media and other means of communication to recruit and encourage others to join them.
The indictments also alleged the group carried firearms on the federal property and refused repeated federal orders to leave. It contends the conspiracy began Oct. 5 and has lasted through the date of the indictments.

Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan Bundy and other key players who were arrested last week are named in the indictment, as well as four holdouts who remain on the federal property outside of Burns, and a man who was the first to be arrested in early January, then accused of driving a government vehicle off the refuge.

The defendants will be arraigned on the indictments Feb. 24.
The federal conspiracy charge is a felony and carries a maximum six-year prison sentence and fines. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Anna J. Brown.

Bundy, the son of controversial Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, led a group of followers to the refuge Jan. 2 and took over the headquarters, demanding the release of two local ranchers from prison and local control of federal land in Harney County.

Named along with the Bundys are Jon Ritzheimer, Joseph O'Shaughnessy, Ryan Payne, Brian Cavalier, Shawna Cox, Peter Santilli, Jason Patrick, Duane Leo Ehmer and Dylan Anderson.

Also indicted are four who remain at the refuge: Sean Anderson, David Lee Fry, Jeff Wayne Banta and Sandra Lynn Pfeifer Anderson.

Finally, Kenneth Medenbach, the first person arrested in January and accused of driving a government truck off the refuge property, is also named.

For the first three weeks, federal agents and state police mostly stayed out of sight, taking a "wait-them-out'' approach. On Jan. 26, that changed as federal agents and state police stopped the Bundys and other leaders as they were driving in two vehicles to a meeting in John Day. The police felony stops were made along rural, tree-lined U.S. 395. The Bundy brothers, and other leaders, including Ryan Payne, Brian Cavalier, and follower Shawna Cox were arrested.

Occupation spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, 54, was shot and killed by state police after he sped away from the stop, rammed into a snowbank and then emerged from his truck initially with his hands up but then reached twice into the inner pocket of his jacket, according to the FBI. He had a loaded 9 mm pistol on him, the FBI said.

Two others associated with the occupation were arrested in Burns, three were arrested at an FBI checkpoint when leaving the refuge and another surrendered to authorities in Arizona.

These are the defendants named in the indictments: Ammon Bundy, 40, of Emmett, Idaho; Jon Ritzheimer, 32, of Peoria, Arizona; Joseph O'Shaughnessy, 43, of Cottonwood, Arizona; Ryan Payne, 32, of Anaconda, Montana; Ryan Bundy, of Bunkerville, Nevada; Brian Cavalier,44, of Bunkerville, Nevada; Shawna Cox, 59, of Kanab, Utah; Peter Santilli 50, of Cincinnati; Jason Patrick, 43, of Bonaire, Georgia; Duane Leo Ehmer, 45, of Irrigon; Dylan Anderson; Sean Anderson ,47; David Lee Fry, 27, of Blanchester, Ohio; Jeff Wayne Banta, 46, of Elko, Nevada; Sandra Lynn Pfeifer Anderson, 48; and Kenneth Medenbach, 62, of Crescent.

Detention hearings are scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Portland for Cavalier and Ehmer. Santilli will be back in court as well at 4 p.m. for his continued detention hearing.

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/02/federal_indictment_against_amm.html

Third Cliven Bundy son behind bars after skipping court dates on burglary and weapons