Pete Santilli, an independent broadcaster who is one of 25 defendants charged with federal conspiracy in the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, is asking another judge to overturn his continued detention.

In court motions filed late Monday, Santilli and his lawyer ask the federal judge assigned to the case, U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown, to review the Feb. 4 detention order by U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman.

They argued there's new information that warrants a review, including the recent removal of all his firearms from the Ohio apartment he shares with his girlfriend and an FBI search of his rental car that found no firearms present.

Santilli also offers the court a new release plan.

It would allow federal officers to search his apartment for any firearms or ammunition, conduct random searches "as they feel may be necessary'' and even allow the government to mount a video camera in his home so officers could continually monitor him, according to court documents.

Santilli's lawyer pointed to the concerns that Mosman raised "about the weight of the evidence'' against Santilli during his detention hearing earlier this month and a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon supporting Santilli's First Amendment rights.

"He stands today an innocent man who did nothing more than exercise his First Amendment rights, and he received no warning that his exercise of those rights was considered unlawful by law enforcement,'' wrote his court-appointed lawyer Thomas Coan. "The court should find that due process requires Santilli's pretrial release.''

Santilli, 50, who went to Burns to film a Jan. 2 rally protesting the resentencing of two local ranchers, stayed to film the monthlong armed occupation of the wildlife refuge in Harney County. He was arrested Jan. 26 in Burns.

On Feb. 4, Mosman affirmed a magistrate judge's decision to detain Santilli pending trial, saying he was disturbed by several remarks Santilli made during his online broadcasts promising to shoot federal officers if they came to take him or his guns away.

"There's a handful of statements I can't discount as just shock-jock" bravado, Mosman said.

He said he couldn't ignore what seems to be Santilli's "deeply-held beliefs" regarding his distaste for federal law enforcement and found Santilli could be "a real threat to pretrial service officers or U.S. marshals or others who have to deal with him.''

Prosecutors contend Santilli used his show to issue a "call to action'' to encourage more people to participate in the refuge takeover.

His lawyer has argued that Santilli was simply documenting a developing story. Coan has described Santilli as an "entertainer'' or "new journalist'' who puts out "a lot of bravado'' and has been a "thorn'' to the federal government.

Simply for "his words,'' Santilli is facing retaliation, Coan argued.

He argued that Santilli has never been violent, didn't challenge federal agents or police when arrested and could be supervised at his Cincinnati apartment.

The new filings make reference to an FBI search of Santilli's rental car earlier this month. Without obtaining a warrant, the FBI "caused Enterprise rental car company'' to falsely report the rental car as stolen, Coan wrote. That led Gresham police to seize the car and search it, according to Santilli's lawyer. He points out there were no firearms or other contraband found in the car.

Santilli has since been indicted in both the Malheur refuge occupation and in the 2014 standoff with federal officers near the Cliven Bundy ranch in Nevada.

Santilli's lawyer said in his latest court filing that Santilli tried to urge other protesters at the Nevada standoff to follow federal officers' orders and "calmed down a protester'' who was screaming at officers. He included an exhibit that he said captured Santilli saying, "Comply, comply, comply. Comply with the order...We have to.''

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-- Maxine Bernstein

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