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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2016
Arrests of Oregon standoff leaders leave 1 dead
By KEITH RIDLER
Associated Press
BURNS — Federal
and state officials were
restricting
access
on
Wednesday to the Oregon
refuge being occupied by an
armed group after one of the
occupiers was killed during
a traffic stop and eight
more, including the group’s
leader Ammon Bundy, were
arrested.
The group, which has
included people from as
far away as Arizona and
Michigan, seized the head-
quarters of the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge
on Jan. 2. They want federal
lands turned over to local
authorities.
The confrontation came
amid increasing calls for law
enforcement to take action
against Bundy for the illegal
occupation of the wildlife
refuge.
Details of the fatal
encounter were sparse. It
happened as Bundy and his
followers were heading to
a community meeting late
Tuesday afternoon in John
Day, about 70 miles north of
Burns.
Arianna Finicum Brown
confirmed that her father,
Arizona rancher Robert
“LaVoy” Finicum, was the
man killed, the Oregonian
reported. The 55-year-old
was a frequent and public
presence at the refuge, often
speaking for the group at
news conferences.
“This is where I’m going
to breathe my last breath,
whether I’m 90, 95 or 55,”
Finicum told The Associated
Press on Jan. 5. “ ... I’m
going to not spend my days
in a cell.”
The FBI and Oregon
State Police would only say
the man killed in the police
shooting was wanted by
federal authorities, and said
no more information would
be released pending iden-
tification by the medical
examiner.
Jason Patrick, one of the
leaders of the occupation,
told radio station Oregon
Public Broadcasting that
five or six group members
remain inside the refuge.
Dave Killen/The Oregonian
Sgt. Tom Hutchison stands in front of an Oregon State Police roadblock on Highway 395 between John Day and Burns
Tuesday. Authorities say shots were fired Tuesday during the arrest of members of an armed group that has occupied
a national wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks. The FBI said authorities arrested Ammon Bundy, 40,
his brother Ryan Bundy, 43, Brian Cavalier, 44, Shawna Cox, 59, and Ryan Payne, 32, during a traffic stop Tuesday after-
noon. Authorities said another person, Joseph Donald O’Shaughnessy, 45, was arrested in Burns. In a statement, the
FBI said one individual “who was a subject of a federal probable cause arrest is deceased.”
ONLINE
Audio from the John Day town hall meeting will be available at
www.dailyastorian.com, courtesy of the Blue Mountain Eagle.
Rick Bowmer/AP Photo
LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona, speaks to the me-
dia after members of an armed group along with several
other organizations arrive at the at the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge near Burns on Jan. 9. The FBI and Oregon
State Police arrested the leaders of an armed group that
has occupied a national wildlife refuge for the past three
weeks during a traffic stop that prompted gunfire — and
one death — along a highway through the frozen high
country. The Oregonian reported that Finicum was the
person killed, citing the man’s daughter.
For
weeks
law
enforcement vehicles have
been noticeably absent
from the roads surrounding
the refuge. Wednesday,
however,
marked
law
Man who tried to arrest Astoria mayor
wants trial outside Clatsop County
in Circuit Court Tuesday
afternoon in handcuffs and
dressed in a striped jail
jumpsuit for a hearing on
The man who tried to arrest his request to replace his
attorney,
Astoria Mayor Arline LaMear court-appointed
Tatjana Queener, of
last June wants his
Tillamook.
trial moved out of
Seidel
told
Clatsop County.
Judge
Philip
Zachary Seidel
Nelson that he
was set to face
wanted to represent
trial Tuesday on
himself
because
criminal trespass,
of a “strategic
disorderly conduct
difference”
with
and interfering with
Queener on his
a police of¿cer
defense.
but the trial was
Zachary
“I would rather
postponed
until
Seidel
not be at odds with
March after Seidel
my representation
did not appear at
a pretrial hearing last week. going forward,” Seidel said.
After Nelson explained
A warrant was issued for
Seidel’s arrest and he was the legal risks of acting as his
own attorney, Seidel agreed to
taken into custody Sunday.
The 30-year-old appeared proceed with Queener serving
By DERRICK
DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
as an adviser.
In late February, the court
will hear Seidel’s request for
a change of venue outside
of Clatsop County. Queener,
speaking after court, cited
news coverage of Seidel’s
case in The Daily Astorian as
a potential reason.
Seidel sought to make a
citizen’s arrest of LaMear at a
City Council meeting in June, and
then tried to arrest Police Chief
Brad Johnston before Johnston
tackled him to the ground in front
of stunned residents.
Seidel was upset that
LaMear would not let him
speak about a council agenda
item on moving a Verizon
Wireless
communications
tower off Coxcomb Hill that
had been discussed before
Seidel showed up at the
meeting.
Stamper joins newspaper’s advertising team
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
It started when Anna
Stamper recently delivered
an order from the Downtown
Coffee Shop to the advertising
team at The Daily Astorian.
Now Stamper, an Oregon
Coast native, is introducing
herself to downtown Astoria
as the newspaper’s newest
advertising representative.
Stamper’s arrival is part
of a restructuring of the
newspaper’s
advertising
department, with ad repre-
sentative Brandy Stewart
transferring to Seaside and
taking on the accounts of
Wendy Richardson, who died
in December after suffering
an aneurysm. Taking over
Stewart’s previous accounts in
the Astoria-Warrenton region
is Lisa Cadonau. Stamper
is taking over Cadonau’s
previous downtown accounts.
Advertising is a new world
for Stamper, who before Coast Guard Academy in New
moving to Astoria was a London, Connecticut, for four
social studies and humanities years, earning a bachelor’s
teacher at Thomas Jefferson degree in government and a
High School for Science and commission as an ensign, an
entry-level of¿cer.
Technology
in
She
served
Alexandria, Virginia.
two years on the
Stamper moved
Coast Guard cutter
to Astoria in July
Mellon,
safe-
to be close to her
guarding ¿sheries
family members,
in Alaska’s Bering
spread between her
Sea and appre-
hometown of Coos
hending drug and
Bay and Whidbey
migrant smugglers
Island, Washington.
on the Mexican
She cut her teeth in
Anna Stamper
border, and another
downtown working
¿ve years in law
for the Wet Dog
enforcement
at
Cafe and later the
Downtown Coffee Shop Coast Guard headquarters in
until it transferred ownership Washington, D.C.
“Through working at the
earlier this month.
While she enjoys the coffee shop, I got to know
outdoors and coastal living, many of the business owners
Stamper said she also feels at and employees,” Stamper
home in Astoria, a U.S. Coast said. “I’m looking forward to
Guard city, after serving nine seeing them in a capacity in
years in the guard. After high which I can help out with their
school, Stamper attended the advertising.”
enforcement cars are dotted
throughout the region.
The FBI and Oregon State
Police said they were setting
up checkpoints and only
allowing ranchers who own
property in specific areas to
pass.
Police and news media
have converged on the
nearby town of Burns, where
most hotels are booked to
capacity.
Brand Thornton, one of
Bundy’s supporters, said
he left the refuge Monday
and wasn’t sure what those
remaining would do.
“The entire leadership
is gone,” he told The
Associated Press in a
telephone interview. “I
wouldn’t blame any of them
for leaving.”
Thornton called the
arrests “a dirty trick” by law
enforcement.
In addition to Ammon
Bundy, those arrested were:
his brother Ryan Bundy,
43; Brian Cavalier, 44;
Shawna Cox, 59; and Ryan
Payne, 32 — apprehended
during the traffic stop on
U.S. Highway 395 Tuesday
afternoon. Authorities said
two others — Joseph Donald
O’Shaughnessy, 45, and
Peter Santilli, 50 — were
arrested separately in Burns,
while FBI agents in Arizona
arrested another, Jon Eric
Ritzheimer, 32.
Each will face a federal
felony charge of conspiracy
to impede officers of
the United States from
discharging their official
duties through the use
of force, intimidation or
threats, authorities said.
Law
enforcement
previously
had
taken
a
hands-off
approach,
reflecting lessons learned
during bloody standoffs
at Waco, Texas, and Ruby
Ridge, Idaho, during the
1990s.
Many residents of Harney
County, where the refuge is
located, have been among
those demanding that Bundy
leave. Many sympathize
with his criticism of federal
land management policies
but opposed the refuge
takeover.
“I am pleased that the FBI
has listened to the concerns
of the local community
and responded to the
illegal activity occurring in
Harney County by outside
extremists,” U.S. Sen. Jeff
Merkley, D-Oregon, said in
a statement.
The Bundys are the sons
of Nevada rancher Cliven
Bundy, who was involved in
a high-profile 2014 standoff
with the government over
grazing rights.
The
group,
calling
themselves Citizens for
Constitutional
Freedom,
came to the frozen high
desert of eastern Oregon to
decry what it calls onerous
federal land restrictions
and to object to the prison
sentences of two local
ranchers convicted of setting
fires.
Associated
Press
reporters Rebecca Boone in
Boise, Idaho, Gene Johnson
and Lisa Baumann in
Seattle and Terrence Petty
and Kristena Hansen in
Portland contributed to this
report.
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