FBI arrests 3 more Oregon refuge occupiers

On Wednesday, three additional members of the armed group occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon were arrested.

The FBI said Duane Leo Ehmer, 45, of Irrigon, Oregon; Dylan Wade Anderson, 34, of Provo, Utah; and Jason S. Patrick, 43, of Bonaire, Georgia, turned themselves in without incident at a checkpoint outside the refuge. Each faces one federal felony count of conspiracy to impede officers of the United States, KATU reports. Ehmer and Anderson were arrested at 3:30 p.m. local time, and Patrick just after 7:30 p.m.

Several vehicles left the area before the checkpoints were set up early Wednesday, the FBI says. On Tuesday, the group's leader, Ammon Bundy, and six others were arrested following a traffic stop; one person was shot and killed during a gunfight that broke out during the stop. Bundy released a statement through his attorney on Wednesday asking that the remaining occupiers "stand down" and "go home." The refuge was first occupied on Jan. 2 by militia members who said they were protesting the sentencing of an area father and son convicted of arson on federal land.

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