A key defendant in armed standoffs with law enforcement in Oregon and Nevada pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges in the Nevada case.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will spend roughly $4 million to clean, repair and upgrade the Oregon wildlife refuge that was the site of a 41-day armed occupation by ranchers earlier this year.
The last named defendant in the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge hasn’t been arrested, and his family in Montana isn’t giving up his location.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Monday visited the Oregon wildlife refuge seized during a 41-day occupation by armed anti-government protesters and met with federal employees, local officials and tribal leaders in the area.
Ammon Bundy, the jailed leader from the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge, has come to the defense of a sheriff who is being investigated by the state.
Federal prosecutors are pushing to keep Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy behind bars Thursday as he faces arraignment on a string of felony charges stemming from the April 2014 armed standoff with lawmen near Bunkerville.
The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating two shots fired by federal agents that apparently went unreported following a fatal confrontation in January between authorities and militiamen in Southeast Oregon.
Cliven Bundy’s family is using social media to plan a rally outside the federal courthouse on Thursday before his arraignment on felony charges stemming from the April 2014 armed standoff with law enforcement near Bunkerville.
Federal prosecutors on Monday are expected to seek the continued detention of a New Hampshire man said to be a “midlevel organizer” in a high-profile 2014 armed standoff in Nevada over cattle grazing rights.