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FBI Agent Injured by Shotgun Attached to Booby-Trapped Wheelchair in an Oregon Home

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 03 2018, @04:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the that-was-a-wheel-problem dept.

takyon writes:

FBI Agent Shot by Booby-Trapped Wheelchair

The bomb specialists suspected that an Oregon home was booby-trapped. As they entered the front door, they noticed what appeared to be a tripwire. Seconds later, a shot rang out, apparently from a booby-trapped wheelchair. And an FBI bomb special agent was hit in the leg. Sixty-seven-year-old Gregory Lee Rodvelt, the man who used to live at this home in Williams, Ore., has been charged with assaulting a federal officer. And before the highly trained team even entered the house, it encountered a series of traps that are straight out of the adventures of Indiana Jones.

This started on Aug. 22, when a judge in Josephine County appointed attorney Joseph Charter to take possession of the property where Rodvelt resided in order to sell it. According to the criminal complaint, Charter asked authorities from the FBI and Oregon State Police to clear the property. He had reason to think it might be unsafe. Rodvelt had previously been charged with unlawful possession of explosives but was released to attend the property hearing. Several days prior to the judge's order, neighbors had seen Rodvelt at the property. There was another, more direct warning: Charter told the authorities that he spotted a sign "warning that the property was protected by improvised devices."

Also at OregonLive.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @03:53PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @03:53PM (#743447)

    You ought to look at his photo, though. Dude looks about as creepy as Charles Manson.

    Really? Are you unaware of the "trick" they use of finding the best/worst photo of someone to sway opinion.

    Didn't you see the progression of photos they used for that FBI agent Lisa Page? Originally all her pictures looked like crap, then all of a sudden she started looking glamorous and Trump began calling her "lovely"... and later we find out it was just then she began cooperating with the FBI.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday October 03 2018, @04:00PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 03 2018, @04:00PM (#743452) Journal

    There are at least two mugshots of Gregory on the intarwebs. Choose your own poison.

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:09PM (#743581)

      Wow, choosing between mugshots...