The group’s leader, Tex McDonald, 64, and fellow council member Vernon James King, 59, turned themselves in on Monday, followed several hours later by two members of the security force that accompanied the group on the raid. No arrests were made at the scene, because the siege took place on tribal land, but Madera County District Attorney Michael Keitz announced last Friday that 15 of the aggressors would be charged with serious felonies, including kidnapping, false imprisonment, assault with a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon, and battery inflicting serious injury. The casino was stormed by 20 armed men on October 9, the culmination of a bizarre power struggle between rival factions vying for control of the casino.

Two tribal council members charged with serious offenses relating to last month’s armed standoff at the Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino near Coarsegold, California have turned themselves in.

Tex McDonald, leader of the group that stormed the Chukchansi casino last month, turns himself in.

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