On June 19th, 2025, four days after nationwide "No Kings Day" first amendment protests, Alex Wick was denied due process of law when he was arrested on felony charges, including "Possession and Manufacture of Explosives" (a class C felony), despite NO explosives, flammable materials, weapons, or ANY illegal items being found at the scene of the crime OR at his home during a search warrant execution. He was "preventatively detained" for over 5 months, unable to challenge his detention, despite filing a Writ of Habeas Corpus with the court.

Alex was not arrested until four days after the alleged crime, on a hurriedly-arranged and hastily executed arrest warrant, only minutes after one of the lead officers “spoke with the FBI” and wrote an updated “addendum report” saying that the “device” found was an actual explosive, and there *might* be explosives in his residence. As a result, streets in the Alberta arts district were shut for hours, disrupting a North Portland neighborhood and holding the entire intersection and connected city block for hours.

"Based on the police’s body worn camera footage in discovery I have reviewed, I suspect that the arrest may have been retaliatory, following reporting to the FBI, regarding my ex-wife, Anna Epstein's possible relation to, and alleged abuse by, Jeffrey Epste*n.”

“During my arrest, and while incarcerated, I was first deprived of my 5th, 6th, and then 8th, and 14th Amendment rights, disenfranchised, and had my human and civil rights repeatedly violated. Though I never experienced physical violence while in custody, I was targeted by deputies and inmates, placed in a too-small-to-lie–down-in cell without a visible clock for over a month, and had my legitimate medical requests were ignored, and I was denied my legally-prescribed medication.”

Alex took a plea for a non-violent felony under duress—after documented disenfranchisement, threats by deputies, an attempted assault, death threats, and the denial of US Marshal protective custody.

“My alibi places me en-route to Canada at the time of the alleged offense” says Alex. Critical to his appeal is that his Canadian border crossing records can only be obtained by the individual in question, not by attorneys, under Canadian ATIP privacy law—yet his detention in Portland, Oregon prevented him from doing that.

A notice of direct appeal has been filed, Alex has been assigned legal representation to assist with his direct appeal, and is working on subsequent post-conviction relief under 42 U.S.C. §1983 (a Bivens civil rights claim).

There is local media coverage (KGW) of the unlawful search warrant execution involving PPB and the FBI, as well as inconclusive video footage of the alleged crime.

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