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"Today, Jake Ryan was charged and sentenced to One year and one day in prison and 30 days for each misdemeanor. This news breaks our hearts. Our thoughts and prayers are with Jake and his family...In defense of the Hammonds the Ryan family stood. We now stand with them all. #freejakeryan" Post on Ammon Bundy Facebook page 1043pm Pacific Time 1/24/2018 "I'm sui juris. I'm a man capable of handling my own affairs." Jake Ryan speaks at his sentencing at US District Court-Portland, Oregon 1/24/2018 Jake Ryan had a good reputation in his community, the support of his sheriff and...

A federal judge Thursday allowed for the pretrial release of two more defendants facing federal conspiracy charges in the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones released Jake Ryan, 27, to his parents in Plains, Montana, after questioning Ryan's father under oath. In a separate hearing, the judge ordered defendant Travis Cox, 21, released to his mother in central Oregon. Both face a host of conditions, including curfews and travel restrictions. With the two orders, 15 of the 26 defendants charged with conspiracy have been granted pretrial release. Eleven remain in custody, including...

On Thursday morning, the parents of Oregon standoff suspect Jake Ryan responded with two hand-written statements delivered to the Clark Fork Valley Press..... "How long do we set in our cozy homes, our secure jobs, our fake securities, while a few faithful honest men try to educate us on what is coming down in our nation? Words seem so useless, as our prisons fill with political prisoners. Are we so stupid, so blind, so lazy that we can't get out of our apathy chair, and stand for something. Has it been so long since 'we the people' stood for anything,...

Gavin Seim: (at:03)..."Gavin Seim here with an update from Oregon and a few of the things going on. I just got word that Jake Ryan had been arrested. He just appeared in court this morning. Sheriff Tom Rummel (Sanders County, Montana) did not honor his oath, he did not defend the Ryan Family. He did not stand up to the federal government. He decided it was easier to lie down and be a coward and become complicit with treason. He like all these other sheriffs who refuse to stand with us. We have to stop pretending that sheriffs who say...

A federal judge Tuesday agreed to lift Shawna Cox's home detention and replace it with a curfew, but cautioned the 59-year-old defendant in the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge not to make public comments about the pending case. "She's not going to make any public comment, at all, period, or she could sit in jail," U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones ordered. Cox has been out of custody since her Jan. 29 release and listened to Tuesday's hearing via speaker phone from her home in Kanab, Utah. The judge told Cox she must refrain from making any...