EUGENE, Ore. – Residents living near 13th & Quaker St. weren't woken up by their alarms this morning. Instead two flash bangs echoed throughout the area around 6 a.m. and, unfortunately, this wasn't a wake up call they could put on snooze.

“About 6 a.m. woke me out of a dead sleep,” local resident Nicole Spaulding said. “ Two large bangs with accompanying bright flashes. I heard some screaming and yelling. A guy came up on a blow horn yelling in Spanish, yelling that they were the FBI.”

The FBI did confirm that they were at the Woodland Creek Apartments early this morning, conducting what they described as court authorized law enforcement activity.

“Got up, looked out the window, there were three all blacked out SUVs and a white armored vehicle of some sort,” Spaulding said. “And they w

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