Armed group occupying refuge clash with environmentalists

His Facebook page showed a photo of himself with Cliven Bundy, the father of the OR refuge protest leader Ammon Bundy, as well as multiple posts in support of the current occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

Medenbach was taken into custody at a Safeway grocery store in nearby Burns, the joint information center said. The wildlife refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has some good ranchland that Ryan Bundy says will be filled with cattle this spring, though he declined to give details.

Medenbach is prohibited from being on federal land as a condition of his pretrial release from a previous charge.

Protesters in OR who are occupying a national wildlife refuge pulled down cameras Friday that they believe were installed by the federal government.

According to The Oregonian, news of the arrest "spread through the compound and some of the occupiers hopped in cars to head toward town when they heard".

The Bundys had planned a meeting with community members Friday night, but it was in limbo after county officials said they couldn't use the fairgrounds.

Arizona rancher LaVoy Finicum left the occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge this week to drive to Utah, before returning to the occupied complex Thursday morning. Her assistant said she will cover two topics: sovereignty of the state and the constitutional limits of the federal government's control. From May to November 2015, Medenbach lived in a small cabin he built on Bureau of Land Management property near the Sugar Pine Mine on Peavine Road in the Southern Oregon town of Galice. He built a cabin on the property and claimed federal authorities did not have the right to own the property or evict him from it, but he did not prevail in court, and an injunction was issued barring him from the land. He was booked into the Deschutes County Jail in Bend, where bail set at $10,000.

15, 2015, the Harney County Sheriff's Office seized two vehicles reported stolen from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Medenbach has previously chosen to represent himself, and has argued that federal judges have no jurisdiction because seminal Supreme Court case Marbury vs Madison should be overturned.