Ammon Bundy, 2 supporters, arrested at the Idaho Statehouse. They’re accused of trespassing - East Idaho News

Boise (

)-The Emmet man is known for being tried but not convicted in two federal stalemates. He was arrested on suspicion of trespassing at Idaho State University on Tuesday.

In the Lincoln Auditorium of the Capitol at that time, when the public began to commotion, the Idaho State Police was also called in.

The Lincoln Auditorium was supposed to host the House Judiciary, Rules, and Administration Committee hearings, but Chairman Rep. R. Caldwell's Greg Chaney (Greg Chaney) moved the hearings to another room in the East Wing after the riots.

Initially, the meeting was disrupted because members of the public-at least part of the anti-vaccine advocacy group Idaho Health Freedom-refused to withdraw from the newsgroup.

There is a table in Lincoln Auditorium with several seats for Congressional correspondents. Seats are only available for members of the media with appropriate credentials, and the meeting was disrupted when people without credentials were asked to leave.

Eyeon Boise: ISP seems to have detained and removed Ammon Bundy because he apparently refused to leave the Lincoln Auditorium

-Betsy Z. Russell (@BetsyZRussell)

After the police warned the soldiers that they were not qualified as qualified media, Chaney asked people to leave their seats. When they returned to their seats, Chaney told them they needed to leave.

Several people in the room started yelling and the soldiers entered the room. All deputies left the conference room and moved to another hearing room to continue their legislative agenda.

At the same time, Bundy and others stayed in the Lincoln Auditorium, sat at the media counter, and refused to leave.

Before 5:30 pm on Tuesday, ISP soldiers said they had arrested three people who refused to leave Lincoln Auditorium, including Bundy.

"The troops are clearing the hearing room as ordered by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Scott Bedeck. When the Speaker gave the order, there were about 18 people in the auditorium. All but three of them left the room voluntarily. Three people who refused to give the order Arrested by Idaho soldiers.

"One of the three arrested was Amon Bundy of Emmet. He refused to stand. The police said he was handcuffed and evacuated from the State Capitol where he was still sitting in a swivel chair.

Witnessing Boise: Two men, Ammon Bundy, were arrested and removed after refusing to leave the Idaho State Capitol; arrested after two days of protests

The three arrested were scheduled to enter the Ada County Prison for misdemeanor violations.

Other information will be released as it becomes available.

Many people, including Congressman D. Boise, witnessed the arrest. Bundy rolled out of the building from his office chair.

Earlier Tuesday, the ISP cited and released a 33-year-old Boise man for trespassing. According to the ISP, the Idaho Police Force personnel asked him to leave the area. He refused. The soldiers removed the man from the hearing room, was extradited and removed from there.

Bundy has recently appeared frequently in the state legislature and has testified in several hearings during special sessions of the legislature.

He also supported efforts to recall Governor Brad Little, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, Little issued a stay-at-home order in March, but he did not successfully recall.

In the past five years, they have participated in two armed standoffs, one of which was at a family ranch in Nevada in 2014, and in the news headlines,

In 2016 in eastern Oregon.

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