• March 29, 2024

BREAKING! Ammon Bundy Arrested, Shots Fired In Oregon!

It looks like things are coming to an end in Oregon and not without blood shed. Ammon Bundy is reported to have been taken into custody, along with a few others, and shots have been fired.

Daily Mail:The head of the militia group occupying a government building in Oregon has been arrested, reports claim.

Ammon Bundy was one of four militiamen to be detained by the FBI on Tuesday evening after shots were fired on the premises, according to Oregon Live.

Two people were shot, the report claims.

It comes more than three weeks after Bundy and his associates took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon, to protest the incarceration of two ranchers who started fire on federal land.

Ammon Bundy has allegedly been arrested with three of his militiamen three weeks after taking over a government building in Oregon He is pictured, left, approaching an FBI gate at the Burns airport on Friday

Ammon Bundy has allegedly been arrested with three of his militiamen three weeks after taking over a government building in Oregon He is pictured, left, approaching an FBI gate at the Burns airport on Friday

Frustrated local and state officials have been increasingly urging the FBI to do something to resolve the situation.

Bundy and his group have held frequent news conferences at the site, travelled to meet with sympathizers and others to espouse their views and some even attended a community meeting last week, where local residents shouted at them to leave.

Federal authorities have taken a hands-off approach so far and say they want a peaceful resolution.

Bundy has been in contact with an FBI negotiator and local law enforcement.

On Friday Bundy went to the Burns Municipal Airport, where the FBI has set up a staging area, and met briefly with a federal agent.

Bundy left because the agent wouldn’t talk with him in front of the media. Sieges by federal authorities in the early 1990s led to deadly standoffs in at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas.

The group took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on January 2 after a peaceful protest in nearby Burns, Oregon, over the conviction of two local ranchers on arson charges.

Dwight Hammond, 73, and his son Steven Hammond, 46, said they lit fires on federal land in 2001 and 2006 to reduce the growth of invasive plants and protect their property from wildfires.

The two were convicted three years ago and served time — the father three months, the son one year.

But in October, a federal judge in Oregon ruled their terms were too short under U.S. law and ordered them back to prison for about four years each. Among the demands by the Bundy group is for the Hammonds to be released.

The alleged arrests on Tuesday come after an Army veteran was arrested for a DUI while he was heading to join the militia occupying federal land in Oregon.

Joseph Arthur Stetson, 54, was caught on camera threatening to kill cops on Monday as he was driving to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

OPB has other details on the story. Road closures and the Harney County Hospital is no lockdown.

Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward said he plans to issue a press release shortly.

OPB has confirmed that the Harney District Hospital in Burns is on lockdown. The Oregon Department of Transportation also closed down the intersection of US 395 and US 20 near Burns

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KTVZ reports

Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward said he plans to issue a press release shortly.

OPB has confirmed that the Harney District Hospital in Burns is on lockdown. The Oregon Department of Transportation also closed down the intersection of US 395 and US 20 near Burns

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