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East Oregonian
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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
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Partly sunny
Plenty of sunshine
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95° 62°
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97° 66°
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58°
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TEMPERATURE
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Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
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Enterprise
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Pendleton 87/54
The Dalles 97/62
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John Day
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Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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Burns
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88/51
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Baker City
Bend
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Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
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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.
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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
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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.
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— 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.
Defense attorney Lynn
Shepard said in a sentencing
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states will focus over the Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 108° in Palm Springs, Calif.
Low 34° in Bodie State Park, Calif.
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Birmingham
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Chicago
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Dallas
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El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
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Indianapolis
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Oklahoma City
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Omaha
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Philadelphia
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Phoenix
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Portland, ME
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Providence
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Raleigh
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Rapid City
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Reno
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