By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Arthur Balizan, an inspector in the FBI’s Inspection Division, has been named special agent in charge of the Portland, Or., Division.
Balizan replaces David Ian Miller, who will retire at the end of the month, the FBI said.
Balizan started his career in the FBI in the early 1980s in the San Francisco Division and went on to the San Juan office in 1983 to work on “terrorism matters”, the FBI said.
He bounced around to the Albuquerque Division and then became a supervisory special agent assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia as the assistant project director for the U.S. Department of Justice International Criminal Investigative Training and Assistance Program, the FBI said.
He later took on other duties in Colombia. After returning to the states, taking on various jobs, he became assistant special agent in charge of the Sacramento office.
In 2006, he served as one of eight inspectors at FBI headquarters.
Before coming to the FBI, he worked as a police officer in northern California, the FBI said. He has three adult children.
