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Corey Lequieu was
sentenced on Tuesday in federal court in Oregon for conspiracy
in connection with the armed takeover of the Malheur Wildlife
Refuge, the newspaper reported.
In addition to time in prison, he was also sentenced under a
plea deal to three years of supervised release, the newspaper
said.
Lequieu, then 44, was among the armed protesters who occupied
the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge from Jan. 2 over grazing
and other rights to use federally-owned land in the Western
United States.
In May, he agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to
impede officers of the U.S. government from doing their jobs,
court documents show.
Leaders of the protest, including ranchers and anti-government
activists Ammon and Ryan Bundy, are set to go on trial as soon
as next month. Their armed standoff had lasted about six weeks.
The Bundys were arrested in January along with nine other
protesters on a snow-covered roadside where a spokesman for the
group, Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, was shot and killed by Oregon
State Police. Authorities later said the shooting was later
deemed "justified and necessary."
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, editing by G
Crosse)
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