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Rancher Fighting Federal Officials on Grazing Is Arrested in New Mexico.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2004

By Thomas J. Baird, Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 17--Catron County rancher Kit Laney, who with his wife Sherry has waged a decade-long court fight over the right to graze cattle in the Gila National Forest, was arrested Sunday night, according to U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Andrea Martinez.

Laney was arrested at about 7:30 p.m. and booked into the Dona Ana County Detention Center early Monday morning.

Laney, 43, appeared in U.S. District Court in Las Cruces Monday before Federal Magistrate Karen B. Molzen wearing a green jumpsuit, leg irons and shackled with a chain around the waist and through handcuffs.

Laney faces a felony charge of assaulting a federal officer and a misdemeanor...

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