Detention hearing scheduled for a Cliven Bundy son accused of conspiracy in Nevada standoff

By PAMELA MANSON | The Salt Lake Tribune

First Published Mar 04 2016 05:09PM • Last Updated Mar 04 2016 07:09 pm

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Cliven Bundy rides in a procession at the funeral for Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, in Kanab, Friday February 5, 2016. Finicum was shot and killed by police during a January 26 traffic stop. Finicum was part of the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge.

Courts » He is one of 14 newly indicted for crimes related to 2014 ranching standoff.

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Cliven Bundy rides in a procession at the funeral for Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, in Kanab, Friday February 5, 2016. Finicum was shot and killed by police during a January 26 traffic stop. Finicum was part of the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge.

A federal magistrate on Friday scheduled a hearing for next week to determine whether a Delta man accused of conspiracy and other crimes stemming from a 2014 armed standoff with federal agents near his father's Nevada ranch should remain in custody.

Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells appointed a lawyer to represent David "Davey" Harold Bundy at the detention hearing, which is set for Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City.

Prosecutors are asking that Bundy — the 39-year-old son of rancher Cliven Bundy, who led the standoff as part of a long-running dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over unpaid grazing fees — stay in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for transportation to Nevada.

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David Bundy was arrested Thursday at the site of a home he is building for his family just south of Delta, his wife, Marylynn Bundy, told The Salt Lake Tribune. Defense attorney Vanessa Ramos is asking that conditions be set that would allow her client, a self-employed contractor in Millard County, to be released and show up on his own at court hearings in Nevada.

David Bundy was arrested and cited in 2014 for taking a photograph of federal agents who were working to seize the family's livestock, according to Marylynn Bundy, who was among a handful of supporters who attended her husband's court appearance Friday.

Marylynn Bundy said her husband never carried a gun in Nevada and is innocent of the charges against him.

And David Bundy's aunt, Susan Hardy, called the charges outrageous and an overreach. Her nephew tried to mediate after a Nevada undersheriff asked him to help calm people down, said Hardy, a Mesquite, Nev., resident.

"He's being punished for free speech," she said.

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