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 Ryan Bundy, 42, was taken into custody by sheriff's deputies
serving an arrest warrant while he was at the Iron County Justice
Court for a separate case on Tuesday, the Iron County Sheriff's
Office said in a statement.
Bundy physically and verbally resisted the deputies, who eventually
subdued him and booked him into county jail on the warrant for
interfering with an officer and the additional charge of resisting
arrest, the statement said.
The Bundy family ranch in Bunkerville, Nevada some 80 miles (129 km)
northeast of Las Vegas, was the site of an armed protest against the
U.S. Bureau of Land Management last April.
The stand-off gained nationwide attention as the agency sought to
seize cattle because elder Bundy, Cliven Bundy, refused to pay
grazing fees. The federal agents ultimately backed down, citing
safety concerns, and gave back hundreds of Bundy's cattle which they
had rounded up.
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Another Bundy child, Cliven Lance Bundy, was arrested in Las Vegas
on a probation violation last August, stemming from a guilty plea he
made a year prior to counts of burglary and theft of a firearm.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Toby
Chopra)
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