Oregon militiaman from Los Osos to go to trial in September
APRIL 23, 2016 12:46 PM
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
A convicted murderer from Los Osos accused of participating in the ill-fated armed occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon in January is scheduled to stand trial alongside the militia group’s alleged leader and dozens of others in September.
Neil Sigurd Wampler, 68, has been an outspoken gun rights advocate in San Luis Obispo County and in January joined Ammon Bundy and his followers ...
Wampler served as camp cook and avoided arrest when he left the refuge prior to the end of the occupation in late January ...
After the Oregon standoff began .. The Oregonian published a series of profiles of the occupiers, ultimately discovering that Wampler was convicted in 1977 of second-degree murder in the killing of his father. He served five years in state prison before being released ...
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article73531507.html
