By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An Oregon man claims he was tortured in the United Arab Emirates by interrogators cooperating with the FBI, which was investigating a Portland mosque, the Los Angeles Times reports. Yonas Fikre said he was arrested in June and taken to an Abu Dhabi prison,according to the Times. It was there he…
By Courthouse News Service Two Secret Service agents must face claims that they violated the First Amendment rights of protesters at a 2004 campaign stop for President George W. Bush, the 9th Circuit ruled Monday. The federal appeals court in Portland, Ore., denied qualified immunity to agents Tim Wood and Rob Savage, finding that they…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Earlier this week the Portland Police Bureau Drugs and Vice Division (DVD) and the DEA received information about a large amount of drugs headed to Portland. On Wednesday, officers raided three area homes in what the police department described as its biggest drug bust ever. Officers found “28 pound of heroin, 2 pounds…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI has named two new special agents in charge: David J. Johnson for Utah and Gregory A. Fowler for Portland, Ore. Since 2009, Johnson, who has a law degree from the University of Pittsburgh, has been the chief of the Violent Crimes Section in the Criminal Investigative Division at headquarters….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More details are emerging in the case involving a 19-year- youth who was caught up in an FBI sting which involved him plotting to detonate a bomb at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony last year in Portland, Ore. The Oregonian newspaper reports that the defense team for suspect Mohamed Mohamud stated…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Portland prosecutors in the 2010 attempted bombing of a Christmas tree lighting ceremony to hand over a faulty FBI battery and recording device used in the case, The Oregonian newspaper reported. The prosecution said it already had turned over 6,000 pages of documents. The defense…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The San Francisco Police Department becomes the second major police force in the nation in recent months to place limits on what its officers can do as members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Following Portland, Oregon’s lead, the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the San Francisco police chief…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After endless debate, the Portland City Council in Oregon voted unanimously Thursday for its police department to rejoin the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force — sort of. The city quit the JTTF in 2005, citing concerns that the FBI was violating civil rights. It was also concerned its officers might snoop…
