KOIN 6 News Staff
Published: September 15, 2016, 5:00 am
Updated: September 15, 2016, 7:19 pm

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN/AP) — The manager of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge testified Thursday that he feared for his workers’ safety and told them to stay home from work just before the 41-day standoff began.

On the second day of testimony in the trial, Chad Karges told jurors he saw a caravan of cars heading toward the refuge and a video of Ammon Bundy making a “call for arms” before he told his workers to stay home ...

The refuge manager said he also received information about a threat to kidnap a federal worker. He said he was also told “personal files had been accessed.”

When Karges went back to the refuge on February 16, he said he found a ‘do not enter’ sign on the office door. He told jurors a locked wooden file cabinet with property records was breached and files had been tampered with ...

http://koin.com/2016/09/15/at-trial-ammon-bundy-dresses-as-political-prisoner/

By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on September 15, 2016 at 1:30 PM
updated September 16, 2016 at 12:12 AM
Updated 6:02 p.m.

... Karges, who has worked at the Harney County refuge for 17 years and managed it for a little more than a year, testified in federal court Thursday as a prosecutor pulled up photo after photo of heavily armed strangers blocking the refuge gate, milling outside the refuge headquarters, sitting in the fire tower and driving government vehicles.

Karges, the government's fourth witness in the federal conspiracy trial against Ammon Bundy and six co-defendants, helped lay the foundation for what prosecutors have called Chapter Two of the case, or the takeover of the wildlife sanctuary. His testimony was measured. At times, he sat with his hands clenched together at the witness stand. By day's end, he appeared weary, particularly as Ammon Bundy's lawyer Marcus Mumford repeated questions others had asked already ...

Karges said he made the decision to to keep employees away after New Year's Day because of the "continued intimidation and threats towards federal employees,'' "type of arms that they had'' and the ''type of stand they were taking."

Karges testified that occupiers used more than 1,000 gallons of fuel during the 41-day armed takeover. They also accessed a refuge money bag, usually locked in a file cabinet, an employee's ID card, vehicle credit cards and refuge receipts, usually locked in a safe, he said. About $400 in cash that belonged to the nonprofit Friends of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was missing from the breached safe after the occupation, the manager said. A photo presented in court showed a hole in the bottom of the safe ...

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/09/refuge_manager_explains_his_ja.html

It looks more and more like one or more of the Bundy Radical Terrorists is going to have to take the stand if they're going to defend themselves. I predict it won't go well for them.

By EDITOR • 19 HOURS AGO

... There were dozens of photos that Karges confirmed as people who were not government employees holding large weapons. The defense tried to argue that hunting rifles are permitted on the refuge.

However, Karges said shotguns are permitted in certain parts of the refuge if they have three rounds or less. He said it was clear many of the weapons in the photographs were able to have more than three rounds.

Karges said occupiers also used government equipment, like vehicles. He said he did not authorize the non-government employees to use the equipment ...

http://kuow.org/post/initial-takeover-malheur-refuge-outlined-testimony-thursday

they need a good, hard, public spanking.

fuck the bunch of them

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Jeremy P. Jacobs, E&E reporter
Greenwire: Friday, September 16, 2016

PORTLAND, Ore. — The manager of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge testified yesterday that he learned of threats to kidnap a federal employee during the 41-day armed occupation earlier this year.

Chad Karges said that was one of the reasons he advised his employees to stay away from the refuge once the occupation began Jan. 2.

When asked by a defendant's attorney why neither he nor his employees went to the refuge and asked the activists to leave, Karges said it "was not a safe environment to do that."

"They were fearful of what might happen," Karges said, referring to the 16 employees who usually work at the refuge ...

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060042955