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A man was charged with assaulting a federal officer after an FBI agent sent to a property in Oregon was shot in a wheelchair trapped.
Police officers went to the small town of Williams in September at the request of a real estate lawyer to sell the property, local media reported on Monday.
A criminal complaint filed in the US District Court in Medford revealed that police had found traps throughout the property, including spiked strips and a circular whirlpool on the side and configured to tip anyone who triggered a wire -trap.
"It looked a lot like a scene from the movie" Indiana Jones: The Lost Ark Adventurers "in which actor Harrison Ford is forced to overtake a huge boulder rock that he inadvertently unleashed with a trap switch, "said the complaint.
After passing the spa, a group of bombs and an FBI agent approached the house and opened the fortified gate.
According to the court, a wheelchair equipped with a fishing line, ammunition for shotguns and other objects set off the explosion that injured the agent. An x-ray revealed a 410-caliber shotgun bullet in the officer's leg, according to documents.
The authorities said that the makeshift weapons were created by 66-year-old Gregory Rodvelt, who was forced to confiscate his property in the context of a mistreatment case involving his mother.
Rodvelt is in Maricopa County Jail, Arizona, where he is being tried for assault in a separate case related to alleged armed clashes. He refused a court-appointed defense lawyer, the Mail Tribune reported.
Rodvelt had been in the jail since April 2017, but was released in mid-August for two weeks to prepare for the sale of the property.
In the weeks following the injury of the agent, a team of private contractors made up of former military experts inspected the property, said the real estate attorney.
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