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A Career W ith America’s Finest
www.fbijobs.com
The FBI attempts
to recruit minori­
ties with a bill­
board campaign.
Two of the
advertisements
are located in
northeast Portland
at Killingsworth
Street and Rodney
Avenue and Martin
Luther King Jr.
Boulevard and
Russell Street.
Vandalized Statue a Hate Crime?
FBI Campaign Recruits Minorities
The FBI in Oregon is taking a
step to recruit female and m inor­
ity candidates. Tw o billboards
went up in northeast Portland
last week to encourage new re­
cruits to apply to be FBI Special
Agents.
The billboards on K illings­
worth, just east o f Rodney A v­
enue and on Martin Luther King,
Jr. Boulevard, just north o f Rus­
set Street, will be up for two
m onths, with one o f the b ill­
boards rotating to a location in
Cornelius in the second month.
As workforce demands on the
FBI increase, the bureau is step­
ping up its search for employees
who are intelligent, dedicated and
motivated. The FBI hired more
than 900 new agents in 2002 and
plans to hire another 1 ,(XX) in 2003.
Currently, 18 percent o f FBI
Special Agents are women and
16.5 percent are minorities.
Special agents must be U.S.
citizens between the ages o f 23
and 36 with no felony convic­
tions, three years work experi­
ence and very limited drug use.
For more information about
ap p ly in g for the FBI, v isit
www.ftijobs.conL
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P hoto by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
The Joan o f Arc statue, vandalized on Bastille Day, may have been the target o f anti-French
sentiment. Although the statue has been tagged before, the most recent damage was the most
vicious and costly.
by J aymee R. C uti
T he P ortland O bserver
As if Joan o f Arc, the French
child-warrior, didn’t suffer enough
indignities in her lifetime, pranksters
defiled the statue remembering Port­
land soldiers who fought alongside
the French in World War I.
Last week, vandals ripped the
laurel wreath from the head and
dumped a can o f black paint over
the statue, standing at Coe Circle at
Last May, the Regional Arts and
Northeast 39"1 Avenue and Glisan Culture Council refurbished the
statue by changing the statue’s
Street.
Repairing the damage is esti­ finish from a dull green bronze to a
mated at $7,500, half the budget to gleaming gold leaf.
maintain 1,600 pieces o f public art
Police barricaded the area with
yellow tape to lift fingerprints from
across the county for a year.
The statue was vandalized on the statue, which will only catch the
Bastille Day, France’s Independence taggers if their fingerprints are al­
Day. The attack was possibly a po­ ready in the bureau’s criminal data­
litical statement against the French. base.
C op R o c k e r s
Vancouver Police
Band seeks musicians
The V ancouver Police Benefit Band “Civil
D isturbance” is seeking a bass player and
experienced lead guitarist to take the group
forward.
The band formed in 2002 to raise money for
fal len pol ice officers, firefighters and emergency
dispatchers. The group plays rock with a mixing
o f blues and contemporary music. The set list
includes the Beatles, CCR, Rolling Stones, Lynrd
Skynrd, the Eagles, Melissa Etheridge, Tracy
Chapman, Taj Mahal and Santana.
The band m em bers are looking for flexible
m usicians w illing to have a good tim e and
dedicate Sunday nights for practice. For more
inform ation, visit ci. Vancouver.w a.us/vanpd/
benefit_band.htm or contact O fficer Barb
K noeppel
at
bar bara .knoeppeUuc L v anco u v er.wa.us.
Bank Robber Escapes with Loot
Federal and state law enforcement is asking
for the public's help in solving a bank robbery
at US Bank on Southeast Mill Plain in Vancouver.
The suspect is described as a white male,
approximately 20 to 25 years old with brown hair
and wearing a dark colored sweatshirt, jeans
and a blue baseball hat.
He was seen getting into a silver-colored
Toyota C elica near the intersection ofN orth-
east 2nd Street and 116th A venue ju st after
the July 2 heist at around 5 p.m. The vehicle
had som eone w aiting in it, according to w it­
n esses.
If anyone was present near that intersection
at the time o f the robbery, they are encouraged
to cal I the Vancou ver Pol ice Tip Line at 360-696-
8148. Persons who call the tip line can be anony­
mous.
FBI Says Man Preyed on Children
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(AP)— TheFBlhasarrestedaTigardmanand
charged him with using or trying to use interstate
commerce to entice a minor to have sex.
Richard Irvin Detwiler, 61, was arrested near
downtown Portland last week. He is the re­
source development director for the Oregon
Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation.
The FBI said the charges are linked to its
Innocent Images program that targets people
who traffic in child pornography or prey on
children online.
The program is in operation in 23 FBI offices
around the country. President Bush is seeking
more money to expand the program.
The FBI says each year one ch i Id in four aged
between 10 and 17 is exposed to pornography
and that one in five receives sexual solicitation
on the Internet.
St. Johns Bridge Named in Threat Report
(AP) — An intelligence report issued by the suspicious incidents at bridges all across the
FBI warning o f possible threats to the nation’s country, including an act o f vandalism at the St.
bridges specifically references the St. Johns Johns Bridge."
Bridge in north Portland.
Road crews found the local bridge had a
Federal officials acknowledged the reference maintenance room window broken and a pad­
despite the mention there is no indication that lock tampered with sometime before June 5.
there is any threat to the bridge or the people o f
A uthorities say th e re’s no indication that
Oregon.
the St. Johns Bridge incident was an act o f
The FBI document mentioned a number o f terrorism.
Man Convicted in Outreach Center Fire
A Multnomah County jury convicted 32-
The charges were related to an incident on
ycar-old Bjame Alex Lewis o f three counts o f Sept. 25, in which Lewis sprayed flammable
arson, two counts ofburglary, unlawful posses­ liquid in a room and lit it on fire at the “JOIN”
sion o f a destructive substance and criminal community outreach center at 1136S.E.Oak.
Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 18.
mischief.
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