Right-wing activist and Idaho gubernatorial candidate Ammon Bundy was arrested on Saturday on a trespassing charge for refusing to leave a hospital where an infant was taken into protective custody from his parents in a child-welfare case, police said.
Highlights
- Idaho gubernatorial candidate Ammon Bundy was arrested on a trespassing charge for refusing to leave a hospital where an infant was taken into protective custody from his parents in a child-welfare case.
- Bundy’s campaign said on Twitter that he had gone to the hospital in Meridian, Idaho, in support of a family whose baby boy “had been medically kidnapped” Police said the 10-month-old child was first hospitalized on March 1 after medical personnel determined the baby was severely malnourished.
- A subsequent checkup found the child again had lost significant weight, and police were contacted when the parents canceled their follow-up appointment and could not be located.