Bundy son arrested for role in Nevada standoff

Mar 04, 2016, 17:18

Bundy's ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada, was the scene of a widely-publicized, armed showdown in 2014, when federal authorities tried to arrest Bundy and remove hundreds of cattle grazing on public land next to his ranch.

One of the newly-charged defendants, New Hampshire resident and former U.S. Marine Jerry DeLemus, has headed a veterans' group formed by the presidential campaign of Republican Donald Trump.

Federal authorities in Utah have arrested David Bundy, a son of rancher Cliven Bundy, as well as 13 others in connection with a 2014 armed standoff outside Bunkerville, Nevada.

According to the progressive-leaning New Hampshire political blog Miscellany Blue, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had reportedly previously arranged a February meeting to talk with Jerry DeLemus at a restaurant in public, but pulled out citing fears for agents' safety.

The defendants were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer, in addition to at least one count of using and carrying a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, assault on a federal officer, threatening a federal law enforcement officer, obstruction of the due administration of justice, interference with interstate commerce by extortion and interstate travel in aid of extortion.

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He said he was also encouraged by the "Z Society" at the University of Virginia, which he said he was trying to join. He was arrested on 2 January as he was about to leave. "We will have no further comment at this time".

At least eight people have now been indicted in the case, including Bundy and two of his sons, according to court records. They included Melvin D. Bundy, 41, of Round Mountain, Nevada, who joined brothers Ammon, 40, of Emmett, Idaho, and Ryan, 43, of Mesquite, Nevada, in the early days of the refuge occupation.

Cliven Bundy was taken into custody last month in OR, where his sons Ammon and Ryan Bundy were occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

The indictment alleges the 19 individuals conspired to create a massive, armed assault against federal law enforcement officers on April 12, 2014 in order to extort those officers into abandoning about 400 head of cattle that, "were in their lawful care and custody".

While milling outside the locked courtroom before the hearing began, DeLemus' wife Susan DeLemus, a state representative prompted supporters to link arms in a circle and pray.

Bundy did get emotional as we discussed the death of his friend - and fellow protester LaVoy Finicum - who was shot and killed by police.

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DeLemus' arrest comes amid rumors that arrest warrants have been drawn up for a number of participants in the two Bundy-associated armed protests.

Militia men surrounding the ranch of Cliven Bundy gather at the back of a parked pickup truck in Bunkerville, Nevada May 3, 2014.

Four other leaders of the OR occupation already face charges in both OR and Nevada: Ryan and Ammon Bundy, Ryan W. Payne, 32, of Anaconda, Montana, and Peter T. Santilli Jr., 50, of Cincinnatti. Federal prosecutors said that more charges and defendants could soon be added to a superseding indictment there, and with several people facing charges in both cases, it highlighted how the Bundy family found itself at the center of two sprawling court cases hundreds of miles apart.

Another member of the Bundy ranching family has been arrested for participating in a 2014 armed standoff in Nevada over grazing fees.

They are jailed in OR after leading a weeks-long armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in that state, in protest of what they called federal overreach and federal control of public land.

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