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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, July 27, 2017 Man with ties to Bundy gets prison in gun case Arizona man gets 68 years in prison in Nevada standoff case dry riverbed below. “Yes, I was down in the wash,” Burleson told the judge. “I did not go with the intention of killing anybody or assaulting anybody. It wasn’t a planned tactical assault as the government says we did.” Burleson also conceded later posting “alcohol-fueled rants and raves” on Facebook about his role in making the government back down. Defense attorney Jackson characterized Burleson as “mesmerized by his fame” after a photo was widely circulated showing him “holding a rifle in sort of a combat pose.” “It made Mr. Burleson feel important,” Jackson said. Burleson didn’t testify during his April jury trial. Jurors found co-defendant Todd Engel, 50, of Idaho guilty of obstruction and traveling across state lines in aid of extortion. Engel could face up to 30 years in prison at sentencing Sept. 28. Two months of testimony failed to reach verdicts for four other defendants who are being retried. Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and two other defendants are due for trial later this year. Six others, including two other Bundy sons, are slated for trial next year. By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS — A federal judge sentenced a Phoenix man Wednesday to 68 years in prison for his role as a gunman in a standoff that stopped federal agents from rounding up cattle near the Nevada ranch of anti-government activist Cliven Bundy three years ago. Prosecutors had sought a maximum sentence of 73 years for Gregory Burleson after he was convicted of threatening and assaulting a federal officer, obstruction and traveling across state lines in aid of extortion. But Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro in Las Vegas knocked five years off the recommendation, noting that the 53-year-old Burleson has gone blind, has serious health issues and was once an informant for the FBI. Burleson’s attorney, Terrence Jackson, said he will appeal. Navarro said she believed Burleson and other armed men used “scare and bullying tactics” to put federal agents in such mortal fear that they abandoned attempts to enforce court orders to round up Bundy cattle in April 2014. Navarro said the govern- ment employees suffered John Locher/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File In this 2014, file photo, rancher Cliven Bundy, flanked by armed supporters, speaks at a protest camp near Bunkerville, Nev. Gregory Burleson, 53, of Phoenix, was sentenced Wednesday in Las Vegas to more than 68 years in federal prison for his role as a gunman in a standoff that stopped federal agents from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch in 2014. lasting psychological harm as a result of the encounter. “Even though a shot was not fired,” the judge declared, “the injuries were very real.” Bundy is a states’ rights advocate and a leading figure in a decades-long fight by ranchers and others who maintain the federal government has no authority over vast stretches of public lands in the western United States. Defendants in the case have maintained they were moved not by anti-govern- ment sentiment, but instead by images of U.S. Bureau of Land Management agents using stun guns and dogs against Bundy family members. Burleson was not working for the FBI when he called for Arizona militia members to go with him to the Bundy ranch, and he didn’t apologize Wednesday for traveling to the scene of the tense standoff. The confrontation pitted heavily armed federal agents at the gates of corrals where several hundred Bundy cattle had been rounded up, against men with assault rifles on an Interstate 15 overpass and hundreds of protesters in a BRIEFLY Oregon house makes National Register of Historic Places SPRINGFIELD (AP) — The Jacob Clearwater Farmhouse in Oregon has qualified for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The Register-Guard reports the house is one of just four single-family residences in the Springfield area built before 1874. A report by the state Parks and Recreation Department said the home “retains good integrity, and clearly conveys its historic significance, evident in its appearance and style, including its massing, materials, and overall design.” The Clearwater family traveled along the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s and homesteaded a half square mile along the Middle Fork of the Willamette River in 1865. Its current owners are Deanna and Dave Larson. Thieves mar memorial bench for teens killed in plane crash GRANTS PASS (AP) — Thieves have ruined a wood bench honoring two Oregon teenagers who died in a plane crash last year. The Daily Courier reports the bench is at the entrance to a field at Grants Pass High School, where Max Belnap and Ryan Merker competed at sports. They died in a plane crash off 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Hi 68 90 90 66 92 87 84 90 97 93 89 91 89 94 63 65 98 95 93 82 92 85 90 88 80 94 95 Lo 53 51 55 53 52 56 48 59 61 59 51 56 53 62 49 52 66 56 60 56 50 54 61 50 55 65 58 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s s pc s pc s s s pc s s s s s pc s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 83 92 91 68 75 80 72 85 89 64 83 Lo 70 80 72 57 53 61 58 68 77 52 77 W c sh s pc pc t pc pc c pc c Fri. Hi 86 92 88 69 76 83 72 84 87 70 89 Lo 70 82 69 60 56 68 60 69 75 46 79 W c sh s sh pc pc pc pc r pc c WINDS Medford 95/63 (in mph) Klamath Falls 88/52 Boardman Pendleton REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Low clouds followed by some sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Clouds and sun tomorrow. Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny today; a shower or thunderstorm in spots. Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. Mainly clear tonight. Brilliant sunshine tomorrow. Cascades: Mostly sunny and pleasant today. Clear tonight. Western Washington: Clouds breaking for some sun today. Mainly clear tonight. Northern California: Partly sunny at the coast today; hot in central parts. Mostly sunny elsewhere. Today Friday WSW 8-16 W 7-14 WSW 6-12 WNW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 1 killings are at an all-time low, but federal funding to programs aimed at killing problem wolves has been cut, leading to the state, ranchers and sportsmen paying the bill, Morris said. Idaho Wildlife Services killed 75 wolves in 2015 out of a statewide population of at least 786, according to a report. There were 35 cattle and 125 sheep killings that year. Hunters, most of whom were pursuing other game, killed 139 wolves in 2016. Trappers got another 131. Bear hunters who use bait are allowed to shoot any wolves attracted to the bait if they also hold a wolf tag, Morris said. The proposed wolf bait rule, which must be approved by the Legislature and the Idaho Fish and Game Commission, would encourage “more wolf hunters to go out in the field and just pursue a wolf, like bears,” Morris said. BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has proposed putting bounties on problem wolves and allowing hunters to lure wolves with bait. The proposals come from the department’s Wolf Depre- dation Control Board, which has discussed how best to take action against the high number of wolves killing livestock and big game, the Capital Press reported Monday. The board was established by the Legislature in 2014 to manage wolf-controlling funds. The board consists of representatives from the Department of Fish and Game, the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, the ranching industry and the general public. “The use of sportsmen who pay for the opportunity to hunt or trap is traditionally our best method of managing wildlife populations,” Fish and Game Director Virgil Morris said. Wolf-related livestock The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery memorandum that Emry went to the area to cover the occupation as a journalist. Emry previously operated an online news service called “The Voice of Idaho.” FBI agents arrested Emry in May 2016 when they served a search warrant on his travel trailer in John Day, Oregon, and seized the machine gun. Before the warrant was served, Emry had been in negotiations to sell the gun to someone he had been told was the captain of a militia group but actually was an undercover police officer, authorities said. Emry admitted stealing the gun from an Idaho man. “I am a peaceful man, and I made a mistake,” Emry said at Wednesday’s court hearing in Eugene, according to The Register-Guard newspaper. The theft victim valued the weapon at $25,000, according to prosecutor Nathan Lichvar- cik’s sentencing memo. Idaho may offer hunters bounties for bad wolves the Oregon coast on July 4, 2016. Belnap’s younger brother Lucas made the memorial bench as part of his Eagle Scout project. It was dedicated at the end of the school year. Thieves stole two large slabs of elm from the bench over the weekend, leaving just a metal frame. Cheryl Belnap says the project was a labor of love for her son, and the vandalism is devastating. Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — PORTLAND (AP) — A man with ties to Oregon standoff leader Ammon Bundy was sentenced Wednesday to 2 ½ years in federal prison for having a stolen machine gun with an obliterated serial number. Michael Emry, 55, pleaded guilty in January to unlawfully possessing the fully automatic .50-caliber machine gun. Emry in December 2015 traveled to southeastern Oregon from Idaho in a van he borrowed from Bundy and then stayed in the same house with the man who led the Jan. 2, 2016, armed takeover of the Malheur National Wild- life Refuge. Emry was not among the more than two dozen people charged with conspiring to impede federal officers during the 41-day protest against federal control of Western lands. 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