By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Nine people, plus the gunman, were killed when bullets tore through classrooms Thursday morning at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., the FBI said. Seven others were injured in the 294th mass shooting in the U.S. this year, the Washington Post reports. Authorities said the alleged shooter, Chris Harper Mercer, was…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As FBI Director James Comey wants to force phone makers to create products that are easier to monitor, a Democratic senator is trying to pass a law that would protect the consumer’s privacy, Gizmodo reports. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon has proposed the Secure Data Act “to protect Americans’ privacy and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The brutal killing of five women in the San Francisco Bay Area beginning in 1976 became known as the “Gypsy Hill Murders.” Now the FBI has a person of interest in the unsolved murders because of a cigarette butt recovered from an unrelated crime scene, the New York Daily News reports….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a body donor program in Portland following similar probes in Detroit and Arizona. Oregonlive.com reports that the FBI launched an investigation into Legacy Health. But authorities are tightlipped about the probe of Legacy Health. “Other than confirming that there is an FBI investigation into the Legacy Body…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gregory T. Bretzing, a former accountant who joined the FBI in 1995, will take the helm at the FBI’s Oregon office on Monday. Bretzing will become special agent in charge after serving as inspector at the bureau’s Washington D.C. headquarters for the past 18 months. Bretzing, 47, also supervised a joint terrorism…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Paul Schmidt spent most of his career hunting down drug dealers. Now the retired DEA agent – the former top drug enforcer in Oregon – is holding seminars to advise medical marijuana dispensaries on the laws, CNBC reports. DEA Agent Patrick Moen recently gave up his badge to work for a venture-based…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gregory T. Bretzing, a former accountant who joined the FBI in 1995, will become special agent in charge of Oregon’s FBI office, The Oregonian reports. Bretzing, 47, will take over on March 31. Bretzing, whose father was an FBI agent, served as inspector at the bureau’s Washington D.C. headquarters for the past…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com From the FBI to shoes? Oregon’s top FBI official, Special Agent in Charge Gregory A. Fowler, is leaving the helm after two years, the Oregonian reports. “I am retiring at the end of this month to take a position in the private sector,” said Special Agent in Charge Gregory A. Fowler in…
