Overview
- Deputies blocked a large attempt to enter Ridglan Farms on Saturday using tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets, and authorities later put arrests at about 25.
- Coalition leader Wayne Hsiung was taken into custody on suspicion of conspiracy to commit burglary and is being held in the Dane County Jail, according to officials.
- Authorities said some in the crowd tried to break through fencing and blocked roads, and investigators reported seizing saws, fence cutters, sledgehammers, handcuff keys and tear gas.
- No dogs were taken during the Saturday operation, after a March 15 breach at the same facility in which activists removed about 30 beagles and 27 people were arrested.
- Roughly 200 people returned Sunday for a peaceful vigil outside the Blue Mounds site, as the farm approaches a July 1 court-agreed deadline to give up its state breeding license while disputing claims of abuse.