PORTLAND, Ore. — Police arrested a suspect late Sunday in the Oregon bank bombing that killed two officers and critically injured a police chief, authorities said.
Sheriff Russ Isham of Marion County declined to release the suspect’s name, saying it would jeopardize the integrity of the investigation and the safety of officers still working the case.
“We do believe the person responsible for the bombing is in custody,” Deputy District Attorney Courtland Geyer said late Sunday.
The suspect was arrested in Salem, just south of Woodburn, the small city south of Portland where Friday’s bombing occurred.
Officers made the arrest shortly after the sheriff released surveillance photos of a “person of interest.” It was not immediately known whether the man in the photos, apparently taken with a security camera, is the same person under arrest.
The bombing Friday killed two police officers who were investigating a device at a West Coast Bank branch in Woodburn. The town’s police chief was critically injured.
