
Originally Posted by
Bailey Guns
This happened less than two miles away from the house. Very few details have come out so far.
I was driving on the highway just east of Lewiston Thursday afternoon and saw the LPD MRAP heading back towards town along with several LE cars. I figured they were out training. Nothing on the news later on.
Then, on Fri, Mrs BG came home and said an FBI agent had been shot just up the road from the house.
There are very few details. Apparently the FBI agent (as yet unnamed) was present with several other agencies for a search warrant to be conducted on a residence. A suspect on scene shot the agent...no details on that. The only thing the FBI is saying is that the officer suffered non-life threatening injuries and no one else was injured.
Neither the FBI nor the sheriff's department will release the name of the suspect. But, the Tribune said a man, Manuel P. Villalobos III, 42, was booked into the jail at 7:30 Thursday morning. The shooting happened around 6 am. The Tribune said court docs from a 2016 DUI arrest showed the address where the shooting took place as Villalobos' address. Villalobos was later transferred to another facility but no one will say where he was taken or why. Villalobos has a criminal history dating back several years for mostly traffic and DUI arrests.
Idaho State Police, Nez Perce Tribal Police, Nez Perce County Sheriff's Dept nor the FBI would confirm if Villalobos was the man arrested nor will they comment on charges filed on the arrested person.
I get not releasing certain details with an ongoing investigation but no one is saying anything about this incident at all. It's all very secretive. The property where this happened is located on Nez Perce tribal land. I'm guessing that might be why the FBI was involved, but that's speculation on my part.