Oregon ranchers' standoff ends after 41 days

Rancher Ammon Bundy (Photo: CNN screenshot)

Rancher Ammon Bundy's Oregon standoff with Bureau of Land Management authorities began with demands to uphold the U.S. Constitution and ended with a request for a pizza and marijuana.

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It took 41 days for local, state and federal authorities to bring a standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Princeton to a close. The last four holdouts gave themselves up to the FBI hours after Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, 74, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to interfere with a federal officer while in transit to Oregon.

Sean Anderson, 48, and Sandy Anderson, 47, and Jeff Banta, 46, were all taken into custody on Thursday. David Fry, 27, turned himself in shortly after demanding a pizza and asking supporters to bring him marijuana.

"I'm actually feeling suicidal right now," said Fry, an Ohioan, before his surrender. "It's liberty or death. I will not go another day as a slave to this system."

Ammon Bundy's protest against an ever-expanding federal government began Jan. 2, but the beginning of the end came Jan. 26 when he and seven of his fellow militiamen were taken into custody on Highway 395. Two people, LaVoy Finicum and Ryan Bundy, Ammon’s brother, were shot during an altercation with police. Finicum was killed.

Those arrested Jan. 26 included:

Ammon Edward Bundy, age 40, of Emmett, Idaho
Ryan C. Bundy, age 43, of Bunkerville, Nevada
Brian Cavalier, age 44, of Bunkerville, Nevada
Shawna Cox, age 59, Kanab, Utah
Ryan Waylen Payne, age 32, of Anaconda, Montana

All those taken into custody face charges of impeding officers from "discharging their official duties through the use of force, intimidation, or threats, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 372."

Oregon State Police also arrested Joseph Donald O’Shaughnessy, 45, of Cottonwood, Arizona, and Peter Santilli in a separate confrontation in Burns.

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"The occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge has been a long and traumatic episode for the citizens of Harney County and the members of the Burns Paiute tribe," Billy Williams, U.S. attorney for the district of Oregon, said in a statement released Thursday. "It is a time for healing, reconciliation among neighbors and friends, and allowing for life to get back to normal."