The Oregonian – by Maxine Bernstein
Federal prosecutors won’t retry Oregon refuge occupier Ryan Bundy for the alleged theft of FBI surveillance cameras after a 2016 trial ended in a hung jury on the charge.
The jury acquitted Bundy, younger brother Ammon Bundy and five co-defendants of all other charges in the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Prosecutors had argued that Ryan Bundy helped remove FBI cameras from a utility pole on a rural road outside the wildlife refuge on Jan. 15, 2016. They played a video for jurors that captured Ryan Bundy holding a ladder while occupation spokesman Robert “LaVoy” Finicum climbed it to remove the FBI equipment. Continue reading “Feds won’t retry refuge occupier Ryan Bundy on FBI camera theft charge”