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*rant County resident witnessed arrests
of oFFuSation Oeaders at )B, roadEOoFk
East Oregonian
By ERICK BENGEL
EO Media Group
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer
In this Jan. 9 ile photo, LaVoy Finicum, a rancher from Arizona, speaks to the media
after members of an armed group along with several other organizations arrive at
the at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns.
Rancher killed in standoff vowed
to die before going to jail
B851S $3 ² $
PePEer of an arPed
anti-goYernPent grouS who
was NiOOed in a traf¿F stoS in
Oregon Yowed a few weeNs
ago that he wouOd die Eefore
sSending his Oife Eehind Ears.
/a9oy
)iniFuP,
a
-year-oOd ranFher froP
Cain Beds, $ri]ona, died
Tuesday after Oaw enforFe-
Pent
of¿Fers
initiated
the stoS near the 0aOheur
1ationaO :iOdOife 5efuge in
southeastern Oregon.
,t¶s
unFOear
what
haSSened in the PoPents
Eefore the shooting, or if
)iniFuP or any of the other
aFtiYists inYoOYed e[Fhanged
gun¿re with of¿Fers. $uthor-
ities wouOdn¶t say how Pany
shots were ¿red.
Eight oFFuSiers were
arrested, inFOuding grouS
Oeader $PPon Bundy.
)iniFuP aOso was a Oeader
of the arPed grouS that
tooN oYer the refuge Jan.
2 to oSSose federaO Oand
restriFtions and oEMeFt to the
Srison sentenFes of two OoFaO
ranFhers FonYiFted of setting
¿res.
He was a SroPinent
SresenFe at the refuge and
freTuentOy
taONed
with
reSorters. His affaEOe Eut
Sassionate dePeanor Pade
hiP a SoSuOar suEMeFt for
on-FaPera interYiews.
)iniFuP seePed to haYe
Pade uS his Pind aEout how
his roOe in the oFFuSation
was OiNeOy to end ² with his
death.
Just a few days into
the oFFuSation, he FaPe
EarreOing to the refuge
entranFe in a federaO truFN.
5iÀe in hand, )iniFuP sat
“I have grown up loving the fresh air.
I love the elements. And this is where
I’m going to breathe my last breath.
I’m not going to spend my last days
in a cell. This world is too beautiful to
spend it in a cell.”
— LaVoy Finicum, Arizona rancher killed by law enforcement
in the PiddOe of the driYeway,
teOOing the reSorters gathered
around hiP that he Oearned
there was a warrant for his
arrest and he wanted to PaNe
it easy for federaO agents to
¿nd hiP.
$t the tiPe, he said he
didn¶t Nnow what the warrant
Fharged hiP with, Eut he
EeOieYed agents wouOd try to
arrest hiP soon.
³, don¶t thinN it reaOOy
Patters. There¶s enough
things they FouOd PaNe a
warrant for us, , EeOieYe,” he
said.
)iniFuP said he had
neither
threatened
nor
harPed anyone during the
oFFuSation.
³, haYe grown uS OoYing
the fresh air. , OoYe the
eOePents. $nd this is where
,¶P going to Ereathe Py Oast
Ereath,” he said. ³... ,¶P not
going to sSend Py Oast days
in a FeOO. This worOd is too
EeautifuO to sSend it in a FeOO.”
He then gaYe a Pessage
to his faPiOy ³$nd Nids, if ,
don¶t FoPe, you Nnow , OoYe
you and ,¶P Sroud of eYery
daPn one of you.”
The ranFher was Pedia-
saYYy and tried to SoSuOari]e
and Poneti]e his SoOitiFaO
EeOiefs on his weEsite, www.
oneFowEoystandforfreedoP.
FoP. He used the site to
seOO his EooN, a 22-Sage
SaSerEaFN titOed ³OnOy Ey
BOood and Suffering,” as
weOO as T-shirts, EuPSer
stiFNers and Sosters ePEOa-
]oned with sOogans OiNe ³/et
)reedoP 5ing” and ³'efend
the Constitution OriginaO
,ntent.”
He desFriEed hiPseOf as
a OongtiPe friend of COiYen
Bundy, and he SartiFiSated
in the standoff with federaO
authorities oYer gra]ing fees
at the eOder Bundy¶s 1eYada
ranFh in 201.
)iniFuP and his wife,
Jeanette, raised do]ens of
foster FhiOdren, though soFiaO
worNers rePoYed the Nids
froP the FouSOe¶s hoPe a
few days after the oFFuSation
Eegan.
)iniFuP said the foster
Nids were the faPiOy¶s Pain
sourFe of inFoPe.
CathoOiF Charities Said the
faPiOy Pore than 11,000
in 200 to foster FhiOdren,
aFFording to ta[ ¿Oings.
)oster Sarents are generaOOy
Said a sPaOO Ser-FhiOd
aPount Ey the goYernPent.
,t¶s intended to reiPEurse
theP for the Fosts inFurred in
fostering. The Poney soPe-
tiPes is disEursed through
nonSro¿t Sartners.
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CH,C$*O $3 ² The
widow of a disgraFed ,OOinois
SoOiFe of¿Fer who staged
his suiFide to aSSear he was
gunned down in the Oine of
duty, sSarking an intensiYe
Panhunt, was indiFted
:ednesday on Fharges of
assisting her husEand in
siShoning Poney froP a
youth SrograP.
0eOodie *OiniewiF], 1,
turned herseOf in at the /ake
County Sheriff¶s Of¿Fe when
she Oearned of the grand Mury
indiFtPent, said DeteFtiYe
ChristoSher CoYeOOi, a sher-
iff¶s of¿Fe sSokesPan. She
was taken to the Founty MaiO
:ednesday afternoon. Her
Eond was set at 0,000.
Her husEand, )o[ /ake
3oOiFe /t. CharOes JoseSh
*OiniewiF], died SeSt. 1.
$uthorities said he shot
hiPseOf EeFause he feared
disFoYery of ePEe]]OePent
froP the )o[ /ake 3oOiFe
E[SOorer 3ost.
The
of¿Fer¶s
death
touFhed off a Panhunt
inYoOYing
hundreds
of
of¿Fers and raised fears that
seYeraO kiOOers were on the
Ooose in northern ,OOinois.
Joe *OiniewiF] was initiaOOy
haiOed as a FoPPunity hero
and Sraised for his work with
the youth SrograP. $t the
tiPe, 0eOodie *OiniewiF]¶s
tearfuOOy toOd hundreds of
SeoSOe gathered at a FandOe-
Oight YigiO that *OiniewiF]
had Eeen her ³hero¶ and her
³roFk.”
Two
Ponths
after
*OiniewiF]¶ death, authorities
announFed that he had kiOOed
hiPseOf after ePEe]]Oing
froP the YiOOage¶s 3oOiFe
E[SOorer SrograP for seYen
years, SroPSting tough
Tuestions aEout why it had
Mark Welsh/Daily Herald via AP
Melodie Gliniewicz, 51, of Antioch,Ill., appears at
the Lake County sheriff’s ofice after she was indict-
ed in Waukegan, Ill., by a Lake County grand jury. The
grand jury on Wednesday indicted Gliniewicz on felony
counts of money laundering and disbursing charitable
funds without authority for personal beneit.
taken so Oong to reaFh that
FonFOusion.
The /ake County State¶s
$ttorney¶s of¿Fe said in
announFing the indiFtPent
of 0eOodie *OiniewiF] that
Poney froP the SoOiFe
e[SOorer¶s aFFount was used
for e[Senses inFOuding Pore
than 00 restaurant Fharges,
SersonaO SayPents to a Star-
EuFks and a OoFaO theater as
weOO as a triS to Hawaii.
³The
inYestigation
reYeaOed
Poney
was
withdrawn froP the SoOiFe
e[SOorer aFFount oYer the
Fourse of seYeraO years,”
/ake County Undersheriff
5ay 5ose said.
0eOodie *OiniewiF] was
indiFted on Fharges of Poney
Oaundering and disEursing
FharitaEOe funds without
authority and for SersonaO
Eene¿t.
Joe *OiniewiF] had run
the E[SOorer SrograP for
teens interested in SossiEOe
Fareers in Oaw enforFePent.
$uthorities said 0eOodie
*OiniewiF] serYed as an
adYiser to the E[SOorer 3ost
and had a ¿duFiary roOe with
the SrograP¶s ¿nanFes.
,n 1oYePEer, an of¿FiaO
with knowOedge of the
inYestigation SroYided to
the Pedia soPe of the te[t
and )aFeEook Pessages
e[Fhanged Eetween the
of¿Fer and his faPiOy. ,n
one Pessage on $SriO 1, a
worried Joe *OiniewiF] and
his wife disFussed whether
soPeone wouOd reYiew the
¿nanFes of the e[SOorer
SrograP.
³...PayEe we need to
hide the funds soPe how,”
0eOodie *OiniewiF] said in
one of those Pessages.
,n a statePent, attorneys
for 0eOodie *OiniewiF]
YehePentOy denied that she
took Sart in her husEand¶s
sFhePe. ³0eOodie is a YiFtiP
of her husEand¶s seFret aFtion
and Oooks forward to her day
in Fourt to show the worOd
her innoFenFe,” said the Oaw
¿rP of .eOOeher BuFkOey.
$ *rant County resident
was aPong the witnesses
Tuesday as federaO author-
ities FOeared Highway
to Fonfront and aSSrehend
0aOheur refuge oFFuSation
Oeaders on their way to
a FoPPunity Peeting in
John Day.
DaYe HanniEaO, of
DayYiOOe, didn¶t see the
enFounter Eetween the
Pan who was fataOOy shot
Ey SoOiFe, Eut watFhed
as others were taken in
Fustody.
The )B, and Oregon
State 3oOiFe FOosed the
highway Eetween John
Day and Burns at 0
S.P., aEout an hour Eefore
the oFFuSiers arriYed.
$PPon Bundy and four
others were arrested, and
one susSeFt died after Eeing
shot Ey SoOiFe. $FFording
to PuOtiSOe sourFes, the
deFeased is /aYoy )iniFuP,
one of the Srotest Oeaders.
$s of noon :ednesday,
the
highway
rePains
FOosed froP one PiOe south
of SeneFa to the interseF-
tion with U.S. Highway 20
near Burns as authorities
inYestigate.
HanniEaO was driYing
north on Highway near
the DeYine 5idge suPPit,
roughOy 0 PiOes south of
John Day on Tuesday after-
AP photo
Highway 395 is blocked at Seneca between John Day
and Burns by Oregon State police oficers on Tuesday
evening.
noon when he FaPe aFross
four goYernPent YehiFOes.
$n )B, agent toOd HanniEaO
he FouOd not Sass untiO
they were ¿nished. /ater,
HanniEaO said he reaOi]ed
the )B, was waiting for the
Bundy FaraYan to FoPe Ey
on Highway .
HanniEaO was on a side
street as the )B, waited for
the Bundy grouS to show
uS. :hen the )B, SuOOed
out onto the highway, he
SuOOed out Eehind theP.
He watFhed as traYeOers
in the rear-Post YehiFOe of
the Bundy FaraYan were
detained. Then HanniEaO
sat on the side of the road
and watFhed froP afar,
taking Shotos.
He saw Oaw enforFePent
arrest two SeoSOe in the rear
YehiFOe. There was no ¿ght,
froP what he saw. The
detainees were handFuffed
and sat on the highway.
He saw two SeoSOe he had
seen on the news, Eut he
FouOdn¶t naPe theP with
Fertainty.
HanniEaO stayed there
weOO into the night they
eYentuaOOy Oet hiP driYe
through the sFene at aEout
11 S.P. He was toOd there
was a dead Eody ahead.
He saw a YehiFOe aEout a
Tuarter or haOf a PiOe uS the
road and the Sassenger-side
window aSSeared to haYe
Eeen shot out. That YehiFOe
had Oeft the highway and
SroEaEOy traYeOed 0 feet
uS into the snow.
³There were a ton of
SeoSOe there Oast night,”
Eoth )B, agents and Pany
state trooSers, he said.
STANDOFF: µThe arPed oFFuSiers were
giYen aPSOe oSSortunities to OeaYe SeaFefuOOy¶
Continued from 1A
oI¿FiaO duties through the
use oI IorFe, intiPidation,
or threats.”
The FriPinaO FoPSOaint
stresses that Soint. ,t states
that the 16 ePSOoyees at the
ZiOdOiIe reIuge ³haYe Eeen
SreYented IroP reSorting
to ZorN EeFause oI threats
oI YioOenFe Sosed Ey the
deIendants and others oFFu-
Sying the SroSerty.”
)ederaO OaZ oI¿FiaOs
and Harney County Sheriff
'aYe :ard heOd a neZs
FonferenFe on :ednesday
in ZhiFh they FaOOed on the
rest of the oFFuSiers to go
hoPe. There is a huge OaZ
enforFePent SresenFe in the
region, and the )%, has noZ
set uS FheFNSoints outside
the refuge.
)%, agent *reg %ret]ing
said SeoSOe FouOd OeaYe
through FheFNSoints ³Zhere
they ZiOO Ee identi¿ed.” He
did not say whether any of
theP faFe arrest. He said
negotiators were aYaiOaEOe
to taON if they haYe ³Tues-
tions or FonFerns.”
%ret]ing aOso defended
the )%,-Oed oSeration that
resuOted in the arrest of
%undy and other Oeaders,
and in the death of )iniFuP.
³, wiOO say that the arPed
oFFuSiers were giYen aPSOe
oSSortunities to OeaYe
SeaFefuOOy,” he said.
:ard said PuOtiSOe
Oaw-enforFePent agenFies
Sut together ³the Eest
taFtiFaO SOan they FouOd.”
%undy foOOowers tooN
to soFiaO Pedia to offer
FonÀiFting aFFounts of
)iniFuP¶s ¿naO PoPents.
,n a Yideo Sosted to
)aFeEooN, 0iNe 0FConneOO
said he was driYing a YehiFOe
Farrying $PPon %undy
and another oFFuSier, %rian
CaYaOier. He said )iniFuP
was driYing a truFN and
with hiP were 5yan %undy
² $PPon¶s Erother ² as
weOO as three others.
He said the FonYoy was
driYing through a forest
when they were stoSSed Ey
agents in heaYy-duty truFNs.
He said agents ¿rst SuOOed
hiP out of the YehiFOe,
foOOowed Ey $PPon %undy
and CaYaOier.
:hen agents aSSroaFhed
the truFN driYen Ey )iniFuP,
he droYe off with of¿Fers in
Sursuit. 0FConneOO said he
did not see what haSSened
ne[t, Eut he heard froP
others who were in that
YehiFOe that they enFoun-
tered a roadEOoFN.
The truFN got stuFN in a
snowEanN, and )iniFuP got
out and ³Fharged theP. He
went after theP,” 0FCon-
neOO said.
5eOatiYes of $PPon
%undy offered siPiOar
aFFounts, Eut they said
)iniFuP did nothing to
SroYoNe )%, agents.
Briana Bundy, a sister
of $PPon Bundy, said
he FaOOed his wife after his
arrest. He said the grouS
was stoSSed Ey state and
federaO of¿Fers.
She said SeoSOe in the
two YehiFOes FoPSOied with
instruFtions to get out with
their hands uS.
³/a9oy shouted, µ'on¶t
shoot. :e¶re unarPed,¶ ³
Briana Bundy said in an
interYiew with The $ssoFi-
ated 3ress. ³They Eegan to
¿re on theP. $PPon said it
haSSened reaO fast.”
³$PPon said, µThey
Purdered hiP in FoOd EOood.
:e did eYerything they
asNed, and they Purdered
hiP. :e FoPSOied with
their dePands,¶ ³ she said.
0FConneOO
had
a
different SersSeFtiYe.
³$ny tiPe soPeone
taNes off with a YehiFOe
away froP Oaw enforFePent
after they¶Ye e[erFised a
stoS, it¶s tySiFaOOy Fonsid-
ered an aFt of aggression,
and fooOish,” he said in the
)aFeEooN Yideo.
0FConneOO said he was
Tuestioned Ey authorities,
and he EeOieYes he was not
Fharged EeFause he was
not Fonsidered a Oeader of
the grouS. Briana Bundy
Fon¿rPed that 0FConneOO
was in the FonYoy on
Tuesday.
The grouS, whiFh has
inFOuded SeoSOe froP as
far away as 0iFhigan, FaOOs
itseOf Citi]ens for Constitu-
tionaO )reedoP.