The leaders of a six-week armed occupation at a U.S. wildlife refuge in rural Oregon are to be arraigned on Wednesday on charges of conspiring to impede federal officers policing the compound during a fight over federal control of land in the West.
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The FBI said it has found a trench of human feces and a road excavated on or next to a sensitive cultural site with artifacts at the Oregon wildlife refuge where armed men staged a standoff with authorities, according to court records filed on Tuesday.
Law enforcement officials were preparing on Friday to sweep a wildlife refuge in Oregon for explosives and evidence a day after the last holdouts in a protest over federal control of Western land surrendered, ending a six-week armed standoff.
A six-count criminal complaint was filed Thursday in Las Vegas against Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy stemming from the April 2014 armed standoff with federal law enforcement officers.
The jailed leader of the occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon has called on elected officials from mostly Western states to voice support for free speech and civil disobedience and to visit their constituents in federal custody.
Just before Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy led a horseback procession to escort Robert LaVoy Finicum’s casket from his Mormon church memorial service Friday, two of Finicum’s daughters made an emotional plea for a “private, independent investigation” into his shooting death by Oregon state police.
Hundreds of angry protesters shouted at each other Monday on the steps of the local courthouse in a town deeply divided by the monthlong armed occupation of a nearby wildlife refuge by anti-government extremists.
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