Oregon protest leader Ammon Bundy is arrested

The Bundys and several other people had been occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service property in rural OR, in a fight to take federally owned land and give it back to local ranchers and others.

The official said when two vehicles were stopped, everyone obeyed orders to surrender except for two: Finicum and Ryan Bundy.

Shots were fired after authorities made the stop, according to the source.

In the past weeks since his group took control of the refuge, the younger Bundy issued a series of demands to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and media, including the release of local Nevada ranchers sentenced to prison time for arson and the return of all federally owned land in Harney County to its previous owners.

Among the five arrested there was Bundy, the son of Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher who engaged in a standoff with the federal government, in 2014.

San Francisco: The leader of an armed occupation at a federal wildlife refuge in OR was arrested on Tuesday during a confrontation in which one person was killed and another was wounded, the FBI said.

Fiore, a vocal supporter of the Bunday family, said that Ammon Bundy told his wife that Finicum was cooperating with police and had put his hands up.

A sixth person involved in the occupation, Joseph Donald O’Shaughnessy of Cottonwood, Ariz., was arrested about an hour and a half later.

The FBI meanwhile said a defendant who had been injured during the Tuesday confrontation was treated at a hospital and was released into FBI custody.

Initial reports were sourced to right-wing Internet talk show host Pete Santilli, but KATU also reported Bundy’s arrest.

CNN is also reporting that one person has died.

Militant leader Ammon Bundy and his followers were reportedly heading to a community meeting at the senior center in John Day, a Grant County town about 70 miles north of Burns, to address local residents to discuss their views on federal management of public lands.

Everyone arrested Tuesday night will face felony charges, according to law enforcement.

“The statement added: “One individual who was a subject of a federal probable cause arrest is deceased”.

“I have been raised in the country all my life”, Finicum said in a widely viewed television interview with a rifle on his lap.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has asked for federal assistance with the occupation and has said that she is angry that federal authorities have not dealt with the group.