Here's what you need to know about Tuesday's developments:
- Following his arrest on Jan. 26, Ammon Bundy was found with $8,031 in cash in his jacket, a receipt from a Jan. 1 purchase of nearly $200 in ammunition from a BiMart in Idaho and a withdrawal slip in his wallet for $6,000 from a Chase Bank Fred Meyer in Idaho visited the day before, according to a prosecutor.
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Gabriel told the court the evidence indicates that Ammon Bundy planned to remain at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for a long time.
- Ryan Curtis, a supervisory forestry technician who works in the old fire office, identified defendant David Fry on video, seated at his desk at the refuge and using his computer.
- Refuge ecologist Jess Wenick, a 13-year refuge employee who manages the haying and grazing program and water management program, said occupiers drove out in his work-assigned white pickup truck to cut about 100 feet of fence on the northeast boundary of the federal property on Jan. 11. He identified the refuge Bobcat truck used to remove fence poles from the ground, and his work-assigned all-terrain vehicle being used by occupiers without his permission.
- Shane Theall, a refuge fire management officer, testified that he found a fire truck outside of its station, with the nozzles, shovels and hoses all pulled off of it, and pocket Constitutions in the old fire house. He said fire clothing and new electronics he had bought were missing. He testified that the fire bunkhouse "smelled terrible,'' full of cigarette smoke. He also said a prescribed burn at the refuge scheduled for January didn't occur. Asked by defendant Ryan Bundy, who is representing himself, if he ever had any prescribed burns burn more than the area intended, Theall said yes. "Have you ever been prosecuted as a domestic terrorist for that?'' Ryan Bundy followed up. The judge asked jurors to disregard the question after she sustained an objection from a prosecutor.
Coming today:
- Prosecutors said they plan to call six more FBI agents, an Oregon State Police trooper and a Deschutes County Sheriff's deputy to testify in the trial on Wednesday.
- The state police trooper is expected to talk about showing up on U.S. 395 after the Jan. 26 arrest of Ammon Bundy and after the state police fatal shooting of occupation spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum. He's expected to testify about his observation of the arrests of Ryan Bundy and Shawna Cox, who along with Victoria Sharp, exited from Finicum's truck after Finicum was fatally shot. The court already has ruled that lawyers can't delve into the shooting of Finicum at trial.
- The Deschutes County Sheriff's deputy is expected to testify about three firearms he saw in Finicum's truck, which plowed into a snowbank on U.S. 395 that night, and a firearm he saw on Finicum's body after he was shot and killed, Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Gabriel told the judge.
- An FBI agent will be called to introduce a transcript of Ammon Bundy's prior testimony in court, likely from his July 18 decision to take the witness stand during a hearing reviewing his request to be released from custody.
- Another FBI agent will introduce a series of videos that defendant David Fry took and posted on his Defendyourbase.net website.
- Prosecutors also plan to introduce a call an FBI negotiator had with Ammon Bundy, an FBI negotiator's conversations with defendant Jeff Banta, and interview with defendant Neil Wampler.
- Prosecutors told the court they now expect to wrap up their case either Monday or Tuesday.