The lone redacted name among 26 in the federal indictment of alleged occupiers of an eastern Oregon wildlife refuge was revealed Monday, but Montana's Jake Ryan is not in custody and his family was weighing their options Monday night.
A message posted Monday to the Facebook page of Jeanette Finicum — widow of Robert LaVoy Finicum, an Arizona Strip rancher who was killed by Oregon police at a roadblock — says Ryan's Plains, Mont., family "has said that they have decided 'the arrests stop here,' " and that they would "make a stand."
Ryan's mother, Roxsanna, told The Tribune by phone Monday night that "Right now, that decision has not been put into stone yet. We are waiting on a little more information."
Roxsanna Ryan said the family hoped to get a feel for the support of the people in Plains, a town in northwestern Montana's sparsely populated Sanders County.