MERIDIAN, Idaho (AP) — Ammon Bundy, a far-right activist running for governor in Idaho, has been arrested after refusing to leave the hospital in connection with a child welfare case, police said Saturday.
The Idaho Statesman reported that Bundy was arrested around 1:15 p.m. on suspicion of misconduct at St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center in Meridian, west of Boise.
Bundy is known to have participated in armed standoffs with law enforcement, most notably at the Malher National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in 2016, in which one person was killed, and in 2014 near his family's farm in Nevada. on federal land.
He is also scheduled to stand trial this week on three charges from a previous trespassing case at the Idaho Capital.
The Meridian Police Department said in a news release that the arrest Saturday determined a 10-month-old baby "suffered from severe malnutrition" and at risk of injury or death. The child's parents had refused to let the authorities check on his welfare after the family canceled the appointment.
Bundy urged his followers to go to the hospital to support the family.
Bundy wrote on Twitter on Saturday that "Last night the grandson of my very good friend Diego was medically abducted because a doctor called (Child Protective Services) for a missed doctor's appointment. If this happened to him So it can happen to you too."
Another person was arrested on suspicion of trespassing in a hospital, and two men were arrested earlier on Friday in a related incident on suspicion of resisting or obstructing police.
Emmett's Bundy was charged with the Oregon and Nevada standoff. He was acquitted in Oregon and the Nevada charges were dismissed as wrongful.
After being arrested twice in one day at the Idaho Capitol in April 2021, he is set to stand trial on Monday for two counts of misconduct and one charge of resisting or obstructing officers.
At the time he was under a one-year ban from the Statehouse due to previous trespass when he refused to leave an auditorium at the Idaho Statehouse in August 2020 during protests against a special session of the Legislature and was kicked out of the building. Police on a chair.