The Green Party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates were charged for pulling a stunt usually committed by juvenile delinquents – they spray painted graffiti on a bulldozer.
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Ms Figueroa could not comment on whether or not Ms Stein intends to turn herself in, the Associated Press said.
The Morton County Sheriff’s Department said the protest of some 150-200 people took place around 10:30 AM Tuesday at a construction site two miles east of Highway 1806 at Country Road 35. On the bulldozer she wrote “I approve this message”.
The Morton County Sheriff Department stated that no arrests or charges have been filed yet because they are still investigating the incident.
US District Judge James Boasberg ordered a partial halt to construction after a violent confrontation between demonstrators and security at the construction site on Saturday. Stein was recorded, with Twitter video revealing her happily spray-painting a piece of equipment.
This comes after heated protests about the construction of this pipeline close to Native American reservations.
The $3.7 billion, 1,100-mile (1,770-km) pipeline project would be the first to move crude oil from the Bakken shale, a vast oil formation in North Dakota, to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Today is no different, with news coming straight out of Morton County, North Dakota: Jill Stein broke the law, and Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier intends on making the Green Party presidential candidate pay for her alleged crimes. In her tweets, she described the pipeline as “vandalism on steroids” and called on authorities to “press charges against the real vandals who bulldoze sacred burial sites”.
Stein has a history of environmental activism, and during her presidential run in 2012, was arrested outside a debate to which she was not invited. Authorities issued arrest warrants.
Stein denied her uses of a spray can was a publicity stunt created to boost poll numbers.
A Dakota Access attorney says if there weren’t disturbances on the section of the oil pipeline that was part of a federal judge’s decision, it would be completed by the end of the week.
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The Omaha event also came as major-party presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump participated in a nationally televised NBC News forum on military issues.
