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If he had checked his text messages sooner, David Fry would have left the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and joined occupation spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum on a trip...that ended when Finicum was fatally shot..... Fry said Finicum was the only person he had known at the eastern Oregon bird sanctuary when he arrived Jan. 8. He drove four days from Ohio to the refuge partly because he was interested in meeting Finicum..... He described the occupation as a Martin Luther King Jr.-type sit-in...... "I did not think it was illegal," Fry testified. "I thought it was an abandoned federal facility......

David Fry's father testified Tuesday that he tried to convince his son not to go to Oregon, but his son told him he wanted to let the world know about the injustices the ranchers faced. "He wanted to support me ranchers who'd been charged as terrorists," said William Fry Jr., referring to Harney County ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond. "He wanted to broadcast it out so people could understand the issues."...... William Fry, who retired from the Marine Corps as a gunnery sergeant in 1997, said David Fry was born in Yuma, Arizona, but his family moved to...

FBI agents shouldn't have questioned Oregon standoff figure David Fry after taking him into custody Feb. 11 because his attorney already had invoked Fry's right to remain silent, federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday. "The government acknowledges that agents should not have questioned him," Assistant U.S.Attorney Ethan Knight wrote in a legal brief. Fry's attorney, Per C. Olson, had contacted Knight and Oregon's federal public defender earlier Feb. 11, asking them to contact the FBI to relay his request to speak with Fry and his desire that Fry not answer any questions from police once he was arrested. Olson contacted Knight at...

Two FBI agents questioned David Fry immediately after his Feb. 11 arrest at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge despite prior notice by Fry's court-appointed lawyer objecting to any interrogation and invoking Fry's right to remain silent, court records reveal. Attorney Per C. Olson has asked the court to order the government to turn over communications between federal prosecutors and any law enforcement officers involved in the arrest, detention and questioning of Fry that day. Fry was one of the last four holdouts......_

Ammon Bundy recorded a message from jail for his lawyer Mike Arnold, who worked to get it to David Fry, last Thursday A number of people were sent the message including the livestream coordinator Gavin Seim, who found it in his 'inbox' and was ready to play it to Fry, but Fry received it on an FBI phone in the background of Thursday's livestream. Seim posted a new video yesterday telling the story of what happened last Thursday to include the recorded message from Ammon Bundy that was played to David Fry during the quiet moments when Fry was hesitating...

"DAVID FRY: I'm really confused right now....You guys I don't deserve any of my freedom. GAVIN SEIM David, people love you, they don't want you to do this...." Part of the livestream 2/11/2016 from Gavin Seim for the peaceful surrender of the final four in Oregon. It was rough going when the time came for David Fry to leave the improvised position known as "Camp Finicum" in the parking lot of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge yesterday. He was concerned about going to prison, losing his freedom, he was suicidal. Before him, three others had walked out and surrendered to...

At the outset, lets remember the four people who are still occupying the Harney County Resource Center (Malheur National Wildlife Refuge). There are a lot of people out there who want you to forget them, including some calling themselves their friends. David Fry Sean Anderson Sandy Anderson Jeff Banta Are they heroes, outlaws, or is one or more them working for the FBI? When you consider what they are doing now in comparison with the unusual activities of the "Pacific Patriots Network" in recent days, I'd say they are at least consistent right or wrong. David Fry came out with...

.....We are not threatening people coming to this place. We never talked to PPN, we never made conversation with PPN...them making up lies about us, you know telling everyone to stand down after they had communication with us those are absolute lies, PPN is compromised absolutely and then to lie about us wanting to shoot all the people who are coming to escort us out absolutely a lie too. There's a whole bunch of lies going on. We're not going to shoot our own team, we're not going to...we don't plan on shooting anybody...we only plan to defend ourselves if...

In one of a series of videos posted Sunday, an occupier of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge railed against people who destroyed a memorial for a dead occupier, called for the FBI to most leave Oregon, and took a joyride in a pickup truck with government plates. David Fry, 27, said that most communicaton to the refuge had been cut off, and that it was a "miracle" that he was able to get the video out. Fry starts one of the videos by talking about those who destroyed the memorial for Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, a former occupier who was killed...

CALLER: "Dave, how you doin David? DAVID FRY: "We're, we're hangin in here buddy..... CALLER: "....there were a lot of people who doubted you and I want to say one thing, they were all wrong and you need to know that. You keep doing what your doing." DAVID FRY: "I understand, I understand that the power of the media is pretty powerful and it can slander people pretty well, you know when there's not enough information out there, there's a lot of lies that people can follow and believe, believe so I totally understand...."

The 'Call to Action' from the Pacific Patriots Network is expected to reach full fruition today as supporters of the farmers and ranchers of Harney County arrive in the largest numbers yet. A rally is being held in Burns to tell the FBI to get out and call for the resignation of local officials like Sheriff Dave Ward and Judge Stephen Grasty, who are seen by locals as the enablers of the federal land control program. Later this year if a 'national monument' is declared on federal land in Harney County as is planned, some 400 ranchers stand to be...