The remaining occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge were expected to surrender Thursday morning on the 41st day of the standoff.
FBI agents in armored vehicles moved in Wednesday night on the last four occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, hemming them into their rough camp and insisting they put down their guns and surrender.
Cliven Bundy Also Wednesday night, the FBI arrested Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy at Portland International Airport. He faces federal charges related to the 2014 standoff at his ranch. Bundy, 74, was booked into the downtown Multnomah County jail at 10:54 p.m. His booking mug shot was released Thursday morning by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.
Updates:
9:55 a.m.: Fry says he is declaring a one-man war on the U.S. government, saying he wants "liberty or death."
9:51 a.m.: The moderators continue to try to persuade Fry to leave.
9:48 a.m.: Fry says he is feeling suicidal.
9:45 a.m.: David Fry says unless his grievances are heard, he will not come out. The feed moderators, identified as Gavin Seim, who calls himself a constitutional activist, and KrisAnne Hall, a prominent national face of the so-called patriot movement, are encouraging him to follow through and leave the encampment.
9:43 a.m.: Jeff Banta is heading out, according to the feed.
9:40 a.m.: Sandy and Sean Anderson have been arrested, according to the refuge live feed.
9:38 a.m.: Sean Anderson says the occupiers are walking out.
9:34 a.m.: Sean Anderson says on the refuge's live stream that the FBI is telling the four remaining occupiers to come out one at a time.
9:15 a.m.: Blaine Cooper, a member of the core group that took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 2, has been arrested, his wife wrote on Facebook on Thursday morning. Cooper's wife, Melissa Cooper, was also among the group occupying the bird sanctuary over the past month. Cooper said Friday that he had not been home since he left the refuge Jan. 26 after learning that Finicum had been killed at a law-enforcement roadblock. A spokeswoman with the FBI in Portland declined to confirm or deny that Cooper had been arrested Thursday morning.
9:03 a.m.: Bundy will make his first appearance in U.S. District Court in Portland at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Bundy, 74, will appear on federal charges stemming from the 2014 standoff at his ranch in Nevada.
8:40 a.m.: Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, a high-profile supporter of the Bundy family, said she and Christian evangelist Franklin Graham are traveling to the refuge. Fiore's trip to Oregon is in apparent response to a call from Ammon Bundy, who asked elected officials from across the West to come to the aid of the occupiers.
On her website, Fiore lists job creation, reducing business regulation and taxation and defending Second Amendment rights as among her priorities. She often displays her support for gun rights on social media. Last November, she promoted a 2016 calendar on Twitter that shows her with a firearm for every month of the year.
Don't forget to order your "2016 Walk the Talk Second Amendment Calendar" today at https://t.co/pWjFfwEplG pic.twitter.com/jcerRShXQe
— Michele Fiore (@VoteFiore) November 10, 2015
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- Sean Anderson: He owns Hurricane Outdoor Supply, which lists a Riggins, Idaho, address on Facebook. The occupiers have said they've been told Anderson would be arrested on a felony warrant if he attempted to leave, and they previously said they wouldn't leave unless the charge was dropped. Court records show Anderson has an extensive history of criminal convictions in Wisconsin.
- Sandy Anderson: Anderson, the wife of Sean Anderson, is a former barber and cosmetologist who recently moved to Idaho from Wisconsin.
- David Fry: The Blanchester, Ohio, resident arrived at the occupation in its first week and has become a public face of the occupation thanks to frequent video posts and live streams. Before the occupation, he made social media posts that included "#Pray4ISIS," "#HitlerWasRight" and phrase "obama needs to be hung after being found guilty for TREASON!!" He characterized the postings as "ranting off" and being facetious and sarcastic.
- Jeff Banta: The construction worker from Elko, Nevada, is a divorced father of two, lived most of his life in Yerington, Nevada, graduated from the local high school and worked in construction before he moved about five years ago to Elko in northeast Nevada. His father told The Associated Press that the younger Banta may have learned his distrust of the U.S. government from him growing up hunting and fishing in the wide-open spaces of rural northern Nevada.
From inside the refuge: An open phone line at the refuge is capturing the occupiers' preparations to surrender. The call is being broadcast live on YouTube by a moderator identified on the feed as Gavin Seim:
Here is an overview of the refuge:
-- The Oregonian