Updated at 6:38 p.m.

After his arrest on Jan. 26, Ammon Bundy was found with an envelope containing $8,000 of cash in his jacket, a receipt from a Jan. 1 purchase of nearly $200 in ammunition from a BiMart in Idaho and a withdrawal slip in his wallet for $6,000 from a Chase Bank Fred Meyer in Idaho visited the day before, an FBI agent testified Tuesday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Gabriel told the court the evidence indicates that Bundy planned to remain at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for a long time.

During transportation to jail by van after a cursory search of him, Harney County Sheriff's Sgt. Lucas McLain heard Bundy talking on a cell phone.

Lt. Brian Needham turned on the overhead light in the van, and they could see Bundy, who was handcuffed, balancing a cell phone between his shoulder and ear, McLain testified Tuesday.

They stopped the van at the Bureau of Land Management office west of Burns along U.S. 20, and Bundy, along with co-defendant Ryan Payne and Victoria Sharp, were removed from the van to be searched.

McLain said he searched the van and found a cell phone in the crook of the seat where Bundy had been.

"It appeared to be shoved down,'' McLain testified.

Bundy's lawyer Marcus Mumford on cross-examination asked what was wrong with his client talking on the phone.

"He was being transported, sir,'' McLain said. "We wanted to make sure there weren't any communications with any individuals who might intercept that transport.''

McLain said he hadn't searched Ammon Bundy before he entered the van. It's unclear who did.

Mumford, during his cross-examination, suggested that Bundy was calling his wife and informing her about his arrest.

Bundy and other leaders of the 41-day refuge occupation were arrested during a police stop on U.S. 395 as they were driving to a community meeting in John Day.

Bundy and six co-defendants now are on trial, charged with conspiring to impede federal employees from conducting their work at the refuge through intimidation, threats or force.

According to McLain, Sharp, an 18-year-old who was part of a singing family that had visited the refuge, and Shawna Cox were seated in the far back of the transport van, Brian Cavalier and Mark McConnell were in the middle seat, and Ryan Payne and Ammon Bundy were in the front seat of the van.

McLain mentioned on the witness stand that Sharp at some point moved from the back to the front seat.

"She actually urinated in the backseat of the van and was ordered to move,'' attorney Tiffany Harris pointed out, during her cross-examination. "She had asked several times to relieve herself.''

"I did not order her,'' McLain said, but he acknowledged that Sharp had urinated in the van.

Harris is Cox's standby counsel.

That night, McLain drove the van carrying Ammon Bundy and five others to the Sage Hen Rest Area off Highway 20, about 16 miles west of Burns. That's where he met up with FBI agents.

FBI Special Agent Ben Jones testified that he received Ammon Bundy's iPhone from McLain there. Prosecutors offered it into evidence in court Tuesday. Jones held the silver iPhone up in a plastic evidence bag for jurors to see.

Jone said he patted Bundy down at the rest area, and found $8,000 of cash in a white envelope in an inside pocket of his jacket, plus $31 of cash in his wallet, pulled from a back pocket.

Inside Bundy's wallet were two receipts: A Jan. 1 receipt from BiMart in Emmett, Idaho, for $471.55, which included purchases of Federal ammunition for $189.97, three rifle scopes for $164.91, men's boots and a duck bib, using his wife Lisa Bundy's debit card. The other receipt was from a Jan. 25 cash withdrawal of $6,000 from a Chase Bank account at a Fred Meyer in Nampa, Idaho.

The Jan. 1 purchase of ammunition, prosecutors pointed out, occurred a day before the refuge takeover. The Jan. 25 cash withdrawal occurred a day before Bundy's arrest.

Mumford asked the agent if anything was illegal about Bundy's purchase of ammunition or rifle scopes?

"In and of itself, nothing illegal,'' Jones responded.

Note and Videos on Bundy's Phone

Jones testified that he found a note on Ammon Bundy's iPhone, and 20 to 30 videos.

The note was a breakdown of who was doing what duties, such as "defense," "organization," "moral(e)" "primary security," "signage," "maps and title,'' "recording," "food,'' "media," and "claim.'' It listed, for example, that Ryan Payne (spelled Pain in Bundy's note) was doing defense; Kenneth Medenbach was responsible for signage, Cox for "Maps & Title,'' and Ryan Bundy for "Claim.''

A video found on Ammon Bundy's phone was played for jurors, capturing a meeting he had at the refuge on Jan. 13 with Shawna Cox and a man named David Thomas. Cox is heard saying, "This is the time to stand up because we don't have another chance."

Asked by another man if Ammon Bundy has reinforcements at the refuge, he replied, "We got some good force outside and in," according to the video.

Bundy tells the men he's not afraid, and in fact, considered going to breakfast in Burns on his own.

At another point, Cox is heard saying, "I'm going through the stuff...We're finding lots of evidence."

Prosecutors also played audio of Oregon State Police Trooper Joshua Wolcott-Petersen's Jan. 15 arrest of Medenbach, who was found seated in a white Ford pickup truck belonging to the refuge in a Safeway parking lot in Burns. After Wolcott-Petersen walked up to the driver's window and asked what he was doing, Medenbach said, "Getting groceries here.''

The trooper told him the truck was reported stolen. "This is a Harney County Resource Center vehicle," Medenbach said, referencing the new decal he and others had placed on the refuge trucks. He told the trooper the vehicle was at the refuge, unlocked, and the keys were found in it. The audio showed Medenbach complied with the trooper and was arrested.

Removal of 100 ft. of refuge fence

Four more refuge employees testified Tuesday about what they found at the federal wildlife sanctuary when they returned after the occupation in mid-February.

Ryan Curtis, a supervisory forestry technician, identified defendant David Fry on video, seated at Curtis' desk at the refuge and using his computer.

"That's my desk and a picture of my daughter," as the video filmed by Fry scanning Curtis' personal belongings.

Curtis testified that one of the fire trucks at the refuge "had everything stripped of it" when he returned to work in mid-February after the 41-day occupation of the refuge was over.

Refuge ecologist Jess Wenick, a third-generation Harney County resident and 13-year refuge employee who manages the haying and grazing program and water management program, said occupiers drove out in his work-assigned white pickup truck to cut about 100 feet of fence on the northeast boundary of the federal property Jan. 11.

He identified the refuge Bobcat truck used to remove fence poles from the ground and his work-assigned all-terrain vehicle being used by occupiers without his permission.

Prosecutors played for jurors video of the fence-cutting, which showed occupation spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum removing a pair of pliers from a truck, and Ammon Bundy, Jon Ritzheimer and Finicum taking turns cutting the barbed wire down.

"Taking down the fence. Liberating this area," co-defendant Blaine Cooper could be heard saying in the video. Cooper already has pleaded guilty to the federal conspiracy charge.

Upon returning to work at the refuge in mid-February, Wenick testified that he found his desk in the main office of the refuge "disorganized and messy," and his personal paperwork had been rummaged through, including bank account information, Social Security numbers and the "complete family history" of him and his wife.

He noticed a stack of historical documents placed in his office that had been moved, including a number of papers about the controversial case of Harney County ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steve Hammond, who were ordered to return to federal prison in January to complete a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for arson on federal lands. The pending imprisonment of the father and son prompted the Jan. 2 protest in Burns that preceded the occupation of the wildlife refuge.

Wenick testified that some of the Hammond records are still missing from the refuge. He also said he found a scanner in the refuge office that didn't belong to the refuge.

He described co-worker Faye Healy's office next door to his as a "technological sweatshop," with computer parts strewn about, tobacco spit on the wall and personal photos and a "disturbing odor" in the air.

During Wenick's cross-examination, Mumford, Bundy's lawyer, tried repeatedly to get Wenick to discuss how the federal government has authority to own the refuge. Each time, a prosecutor objected and U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown sustained the objections.

"What authority does the federal government have to maintain the fence?'' Mumford asked Wenick.

"Were you involved in the burns that the Hammonds were prosecuted for?'' Mumford asked him.

After sustaining objections to those questions, the judge advised Mumford, "Please confine yourself to cross on direct'' examination. Later, the judge threatened to halt Mumford's cross-examination of a witness if he didn't confine himself to the testimony offered during the prosecutor's direct questioning. Earlier, Mumford addressed a witness by the wrong name.

Shane Theall, a refuge fire management officer, testified that he found a fire truck outside of its station, with the nozzles, shovels and hoses all pulled off of it, and pocket Constitutions in the old fire house. He said fire clothing and new electronics he had bought were missing. He testified that the fire bunkhouse "smelled terrible," full of cigarette smoke. He also said a prescribed burn at the refuge scheduled for January didn't occur.

Asked by defendant Ryan Bundy, who is representing himself, if he ever had any prescribed burns burn more than the area intended, Theall said yes.

"Have you ever been prosecuted as a domestic terrorist for that?" Ryan Bundy followed up. The judge asked jurors to disregard the question after she sustained an objection from a prosecutor.

Refuge maintenance mechanic Edward Moulton testified that he was the last person at the refuge on Dec. 31, and locked his office and the middle and back gates to the refuge. When he returned on Feb. 14, he found beds and cots in his office and a tobacco-rolling station.

Later, when an FBI agent and pilot Jeffrey Cleveland testified that he flew aerial surveillance during the occupation, and spent about 23 hours flying above the refuge on Jan. 18, Ryan Bundy asked him,"So do you spy on the American people a lot?''

The judge sustained another objection to that question.

-- Maxine Bernstein

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