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Date: April 27, 2025 05:52PM
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/04/27/anti-government-zealot-ammon-bundy/It pretty much confirms what we have discussed previously
Idaho has not requested extradition, and Idaho apparently doesn't want him
From the article
"Lauren Montague, sheriff’s spokesperson for Idaho’s Ada County, confirmed that the warrant for Bundy’s arrest allows for extradition but said the office lacks jurisdiction.
“I am not aware,” she said, “of any attempt made by our agency to request the appropriate Utah agency to serve the warrant.”
Gary Raney, former Ada County sheriff, where the arrest warrant was issued, believes police are not pursuing Bundy because the risk of provoking an armed standoff or similar confrontation in Utah outweighs the justice that would be served by arresting and extraditing him.
“I can tell you that 99 out of 100 people in Idaho are just happy he is in Utah,” Raney said. “There’s a sense of at least he’s not here in Idaho pulling stunts…with his little band of merry men.”
"Sheriff Kenneth Carpenter, in Utah’s Iron County, said he has not heard from Idaho authorities but added that he reached out to them after learning that Bundy was in southern Utah.
“It’s a civil rather than a criminal warrant,” he said, “so they really are not interested in getting him back. If a deputy comes across him, [he or she] would arrest him as long as Idaho is willing to extradite. But if Idaho isn’t willing to extradite him, we can’t arrest him.”
Upon learning that Bundy was living in Washington County several months ago, Carpenter said he sent the fugitive’s address to Washington County sheriff’s officials but never heard back."
He is currently living in a friend's attic apartment.
Has the church excommunicated him? Apparently not, although he was subjected to church discipline
"Even though he was acquitted of all charges in the Oregon case and the charges for the Nevada skirmish were dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct, Bundy said a regional Latter-day Saint leader put him under church discipline when he was released from prison and moved with his family to Idaho in 2018.
That prevented him from attending the temple, baptizing some of his children and ordaining his sons to the all-male priesthood.
When those religious limits were lifted about 18 months later, Bundy said he asked his stake president “why he put me on church discipline. The only answer he gave me was that he wanted to know which side [I] was on.”
A few years later, Bundy again fell out of the church’s good graces.
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Bundy said that prompted his regional leader to put him on church restrictions again. He was restored to full fellowship, Bundy said, three years later by a new stake president.
“I reached out to him and said, ‘I would like to take the sacrament [or Communion] again…and I also would like to baptize my son,” Bundy recalled. “...So when I talked to him, he gave me my temple recommend and lifted all of the church [restrictions].
The faith leader “said he had called church headquarters and asked what standing [I] was in,” Bundy continued. “And the lady there asked, ‘Are you asking ecclesiastically or politically?’ And he said, ‘Well, I’m a stake president so I am asking ecclesiastically.’ She said, ‘According to our records, Ammon Bundy has always been in good standing in the church.’”