UPDATE | Cliven Bundy charged in standoff

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The father of the jailed leader of a group that occupied an Oregon federal wildlife refuge was charged today with conspiracy, assault on a federal officer, obstruction, weapon and other charges stemming from his role at the center of a tense April 2014 armed standoff with federal officials near his ranch in Nevada.

A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas also charges Cliven Bundy, 69, with extortion and aiding and abetting.

It reopened a festering question of how federal authorities would fulfill promises to "administratively and judicially" resolve the cancellation at gunpoint of a roundup of Bundy cattle from rangeland about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.

The 32-page criminal complaint accuses Bundy of leading more than 200 self-styled militia supporters into the April 2014 confrontation that had snipers with military-style weapons on a freeway overpass training their sights on federal agents who were attempting to enforce a court order to round up Bundy cattle.