Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan slammed political leaders in Portland over their handling of violence in the city Saturday after Border Patrol agents were sent in to assist.
ICE agents are no longer allowed to use the firing range and classroom space at its training center in Portland after police terminated a two-year contract.
The FBI is trying to determine whether federal charges are warranted in the case of the 35-year-old man who stabbed three people on a Portland train after yelling expletives at two women he believed to be Muslims.
The Portland division of the FBI has a new special agent in charge.
By The Oregonian Editorial Board Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, who reportedly has not yet established a position on the matter, recently scheduled a 90-minute hearing to discuss “withdrawal from JTTF involvement.” The Dec. 18 discussion, perhaps fittingly, will occur in the midst of a holiday season devoted to ritual. Portland City Council seems to revisit the city’s…
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 Prosecutors in the case against a former college student accused of trying to detonate a bomb near Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland will begin presenting evidence in the case today, KOIN Local 6 reports. During open arguments Friday, the prosecution painted Mohamed Mohamud as a calculating jihadist intent on killing as many…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com His department under federal oversight, Portland Police Chief Michael Sauschuck is to attend a 10-week course at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA., the Portland Daily Sun reports. “It’s a lifelong goal from a law enforcement perspective,” Sauschuck told the newspaper. The academy offered its first classes to 23 students in…
