Indictment Details Charges Against Ammon Bundy, Other Militants

Federal officials have allowed the armed occupation of an OR wildlife refuge to drag on for more than a month as part of a strategy learned from past standoffs in Texas and Idaho that ended in bloodshed and spurred more government mistrust, experts say.

A US federal indictment was unsealed on Thursday against 16 militia members involved in the occupation of a wildlife refuge in the northwestern state of Oregon.

The indictment came a little more than a week after authorities began arresting people involved in the armed occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and, while taking the group’s leaders into custody, fatally shot one of the most high-profile occupiers.

The group has occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for weeks, protesting federal land use in the Western United States. Each person could face up to six years in prison.

It doesn’t appear that protestors in OR will be going home anytime soon.

Go home Oregon State Police, you have already killed enough. “This is what you get when government officials ignore the people”, Bundy said in the message, arguing that the occupiers had “exhausted all prudent measures to get government officials to investigate the abuses to the Hammond family”.

Since Bundy’s arrest, he has called on the four holdouts to “stand down” and leave the refuge peacefully.

“One of the Federal Bureau of Investigation guys put a cellphone, one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation cellphones, in a auto up here that I picked up”, David Fry, 27, said. On Oct. 5, it says, two of those charged traveled to Harney County, where the refuge is located, “to warn the Harney County sheriff of “extreme civil unrest” if certain demands were not met”. “It is time to end this”.

‘Due to the evolving situation in eastern OR, all service stations are on alert and being advised to take appropriate caution, ‘ Shire said in a statement.

Protesters gathered near the wildlife refuge Monday while authorities continue to work toward a peaceful resolution with the last remaining occupiers.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation declined comment Thursday, but the lack of movement in recent days indicates negotiators were not offering amnesty.

In the recording, Bundy said he is in solitary confinement and has learned he was indicted.