FBI Seeks Peaceful Ending to Armed Standoff at Federal Building in Oregon
A march on Saturday to protest father-and-son ranchers who were convicted of arson has escalated to an armed occupation of a federal building in Oregon.
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Oregon’s Justice Department spied on Black Lives Matter supporters to determine whether they presented a threat.
Father of Mass Shooting Victim in Oregon Said He Was Denied Access to President Obama Meeting
The father of an 18-year-old who was fatally shot during the mass shooting at an Oregon community college said the Secret Service and FBI blocked him from meeting with President Obama while in town to comfort the victims’ families.
Ten Killed in Mass Shooting at Community College in Oregon
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…
Democratic Senator Creates Bill to Counter FBI Attempts to Make Cell Phones Less Secure
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…
DNA Evidence Brings FBI Closer to Solving Decades-Old ‘Gypsy Hill Murders’ Case
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….
FBI Investigating Body Donor Program in Portland Following Similar Probes in Detroit, Arizona
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…
The FBI’s New Special Agent in Charge in Oregon Takes Helm Monday
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…