For a 22-year-old, a life gone haywire after Oregon standoff

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For Tulalip 22-year-old, a life gone haywire after Oregon standoff
Originally published March 4, 2016 at 8:40 pm By Erik Lacitis, Seattle Times staff reporter

The youngest of the 25 people indicted after the takeover of the Oregon wildlife refuge lives on the Tulalip Reservation with his girlfriend and infant. They were planning to marry, then he would join the Army. But he was arrested instead. Their lives have gone haywire.

TULALIP RESERVATION — It was about 10 in the morning when law-enforcement vehicles pulled up to the modest home where Eric Lee Flores, his girlfriend and their 6-month-old baby daughter were staying.

There were three to five cars, at least one tribal police vehicle, and maybe three unmarked cars with FBI agents. It’s hard to keep an exact count when things heat up.

Flores’ monthlong adventure into the world of self-described patriots had come to a discomfiting end on Feb. 11.

Eric Lee Flores was indicted in the armed takeover of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.


http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/for-tulalip-22-year-old-a-life-gone-haywire-after-oregon-standoff/

[Adsos Letter]

1. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. n/t

[Kip Humphrey]

2. By the looks of it, his life had gone haywire way before Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

[enough]

10. Exactly. (nt)

[hobbit709]

3. Carrying that much hardware, you'll never untangle it in time if you actually need it.

[malthaussen]

4. You do the crime, you do the time.

Funny how the Federal government frowns on armed insurrection against the Federal government. Funny, too, that if he had been an Afghan in armed insurrection in Afghanistan, he'd probably have eaten a Tomahawk missile.

-- Mal

[Jenny_92808]

11. It is funny (not really) when conservatives say...

If you do the crime.....but when they do....they think they are above the law.

[fullautohotdog]

5. Feel bad for the girl and baby...

Not so much the guy pointing guns at federal officers. Dude's probably going to jail, and the demand for soldiers isn't high enough for a judge to give a guy accused of pointing guns at police a shot in the army...

Dumbass...

[NutmegYankee]

6. Wait, you (Eric) participate in an armed takeover of federal property, but want to join the army?

The role of the army is to stop people like you.

[IdaBriggs]

7. The girlfriend looks like she barely escaped marriage to the young moron.

No sympathy except for the baby.

[jwirr]

8. Wonder if he was in anyway connected to the Mormons

there? The Mormon Church is known to haunt the reservations because Native Americans are part of their belief in the 12 Lost Tribes of Israel.

A lot of our people get hooked up in their schemes.

[Kber]

9. Last sentence they "didn't understand the consequences"

He was 22, not 15.

[malthaussen]

12. Hey, he wouldn't have an excuse at 15.

Eight, maybe. How sophisticated does one need to be to understand that taking up arms against a government is a bad idea ?


-- Mal