Las Vegas Sun

April 18, 2024

Jury ends day deliberating in Bundy standoff case in Las Vegas

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Supporters raise a flag outside of the federal courthouse Monday, April 24, 2017, in Las Vegas. A jury found two men guilty of federal charges Monday in an armed standoff that stopped federal agents from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy’s Nevada ranch in 2014. Jurors said they were deadlocked on charges against four other men, and the judge told them to keep deliberating.

A federal jury in Las Vegas has ended a third full day of deliberations on Monday in the retrial of four men accused of wielding assault weapons against federal agents in a 2014 standoff near the Southern Nevada ranch of anti-government figure Cliven Bundy.

Jurors are due to return to work Tuesday in the case against Idaho defendants Scott Drexler, Eric Parker and Steven Stewart, and Ricky Lovelien of Montana and Oklahoma, a court clerk said.

The jury is considering 10 charges including conspiracy, weapon possession and assault on a federal officer.

The trial is a prelude to another expected later this year for Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan Bundy, and two other defendants.

Six other defendants, including two other Bundy sons, are slated for trial next year.