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Jury convicts two of conspiracy in Burns standoff In this Jan. 9, 2016, file photo, a man stands guard after members of the "3% of Idaho" group, along with several other organizations, arrived at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns. [AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, file] Friday Mar 10, 2017 at 12:27 PM Mar 10, 2017 at 12:46 PM The Associated Press PORTLAND — A jury has convicted two men of conspiracy to impede federal officers during an armed occupation of the Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge near Burns. The verdict today handed prosecutors a measure of redemption after they failed to convict Ammon and Ryan Bundy along with five other occupiers in a high-profile trial last fall involving the takeover of the refuge, a remote bird sanctuary in Harney County. In the current trial, Jason Patrick and Darryl Thorn were found guilty of conspiracy. However defendants Duane Ehmer and Jake Ryan were found not guilty of conspiracy. Ehmer and Ryan were found guilty of deprivation of government property. The men had faced the same primary charge as the Bundy defendants — conspiring to impede Interior Department employees from doing their jobs at the refuge.