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Wednesday, February 10, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Occupiers at refuge are indicted
By terrence Petty & Steven DuBois
Associated Press
PORTLAND (AP) — The
four remaining occupiers at
an Oregon wildlife refuge
are facing charges, according
to court documents released
Thursday that say more than a
dozen armed activists threat-
ened violence against federal
authorities and used social
media to urge others to join
them.
An indictment names 16
defendants, including the
holdouts, standoff leader
Ammon Bundy and other
occupiers. Also named is
Kenneth Medenbach, who
was arrested after being
caught driving a government
vehicle to a supermarket.
A federal grand jury
charged all with felony con-
spiracy, accusing them of
using intimidation to pre-
vent federal officers from
doing their work at Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge.
The holdouts have said
they are not leaving with-
out a guarantee they won’t
be arrested. If they stay true
to their word, the indictment
buries any chance they will
surrender on their own.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office
and the FBI declined com-
ment Thursday, but the lack
of movement in recent days
indicates negotiators were not
offering amnesty.
The remaining occupi-
ers are: David Fry, 27, of
Blanchester, Ohio; Jeff Banta,
46, of Elko, Nevada; and Sean
Anderson, 48, and Sandy
Anderson, 47, a married cou-
ple from Riggins, Idaho.
Fry’s father, William Fry,
was disappointed that his son
has been charged, saying in
an email: “We were hoping
for a more positive outcome.”
He said his son is no dif-
ferent than those who believe
“our country is heading in the
wrong direction.
“He believes it so strongly
he is willing to stand up with
the hope that these actions
might wake the nation up and
lead others to get involved to
change our country’s course,”
the father said.
William Fry said he is still
“hoping and praying to wel-
come our son home safely.”
Responding to the grand
jury indictment, Ammon
Bundy on Thursday struck
a defiant tone in an audio
recording and a written state-
ment from the county jail in
Portland where he is being
held.
“Taking over the refuge
was not only right, it was
the duty of the people to
do,” Bundy said in the audio
recording, which was released
by his family.
Bundy called his jailed fol-
lowers “political prisoners”
who were just trying to edu-
cate ranchers and others about
their constitutional rights on
federal lands and abuses by
federal authorities.
Bundy made reference to
the death last week of one
of the lead occupiers, Robert
“LaVoy” Finicum, who died
in a confrontation with FBI
agents and Oregon state
troopers that also resulted
in the arrest of Bundy and
others.
Bundy said in the record-
ing “Go home, Oregon State
Police, you have already
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Thursday, February 18,
5:30 p.m.
Public hearings:
A. Site Plan Review:
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Applicant: City of Sisters.
The proposed amendments
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1. Revise Chapter 1.3
Definitions: Definition of
formula food establishments.
2. Revise Chapter 2.2
Residential District: Reduce
front-loaded garage setbacks
and clarify text for garage
setbacks.
3. Revise Chapter 2.3
Multi-Family Residential
District:
• Reduce front-loaded
garage setbacks and clarify
killed enough” and “Go
home, FBI, it is time to end
this.”
FBI agents, Oregon State
Police and other law enforce-
ment officers are deployed
around the refuge as the last
four occupiers continue to
refuse to leave.
The standoff began Jan. 2,
with Bundy’s group demand-
ing the federal government
turn public lands over to local
control and free two ranchers
imprisoned for setting fires.
Two conspirators trav-
eled to the sparsely populated
area of southeastern Oregon
last October to warn the
local sheriff of “extreme civil
unrest” if certain demands
were not met, according to the
indictment.
Once the occupation
began, the group brandished
firearms to keep officials
from carrying out their duties,
threatened violence and
intimidated locals, the docu-
ments say.
Defense attorneys have
said that their clients engaged
in civil disobedience and are
being punished for political
speech.
text for garage setbacks.
• Revise minimum den-
sity standards and require a
Minor Conditional Use per-
mit for projects consisting of
15-20 gross units per acre.
• Increase maximum
height for multifamily struc-
tures consisting of 5 or more
units.
• Revise minimum lot size
requirements for four-plex
dwellings and multifamily
structures consisting of five
or more units.
• Revise open space
requirements for multifamily
structures consisting of five
or more units.
4. Revise Chapter 2.4
Downtown Commercial
District:
• Reduce front-loaded
garage setbacks and clarify
text for garage setbacks.
5. Revise Chapter 3.2
Landscaping: Reduce mini-
mum caliper size for required
street trees.
Workshop:
A. Continue discussion
of future Development Code
revisions
1. Mobile food units,
vacation rentals, temporary
uses.
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