A man sneaked into the downtown federal courthouse Saturday morning through the private garage, barricaded himself in the mail room and claimed he was the director of the CIA, according to a federal affidavit.
U.S. deputy marshals ended up shooting him with a Taser stun gun before handcuffing him and turned him over to Portland police, who transported him to Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center on a police hold pending a mental health evaluation.
But the man escaped from the hospital, leaving his belongings behind, and returned to the downtown courthouse, the affidavit said.
Now, Ryan F. Bautista-Bonneau, 47, faces a federal charge of entering a secure federal property by false pretenses.
He’s in the downtown Portland jail on a federal hold, as well as two probation violations stemming from 2022 charges of resisting arrest and criminal mischief in Multnomah County. In court papers from the past year, Bautista-Bonneau is described as homeless or moving between family members’ homes.
Bautista-Bonneau was first seen at 12:46 a.m. Saturday loitering outside a side door of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse off Southwest Salmon Street , Federal Protective Service agent Stephanie Blasingame wrote in the affidavit.
A federal security officer asked if he could help Bautista-Bonneau and he told the officer he worked for the CIA. He said he had permission from U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman to work on “ongoing issues” and wanted to access the upper floors of the courthouse, the affidavit said.
When the officer asked for his identification, Bautista-Bonneau had none, according to the affidavit.
Bautista-Bonneau claimed the judge was on his way to escort him inside, the affidavit said.
Bautista-Bonneau left the area but returned about 2:15 a.m. and sat outside the courthouse beside a door on the north side. He remained there until about 7 a.m., when he left but returned again about three hours later, security officers noticed.
At 10:39 a.m., Bautista-Bonneau called the courthouse security desk, didn’t identify himself but claimed he had locked himself out and needed help to get back in through the side door, the affidavit said.
Another security officer who took the call and thought it was from a courthouse employee went to the side door, opened it and found Bautista-Bonneau.
Bautista-Bonneau, according to the affidavit, tried to push open the door and screamed, “I am the Director of the CIA and I have access!”
Minutes later, another court employee reported to security that she saw the man enter the courthouse’s underground parking garage through the normally-secured entrance ramp as she was leaving the courthouse.
Security found Bautista-Bonneau sitting in a mail room inside the parking garage and told him he wasn’t allowed there, but Bautista-Bonneau started to argue and again claimed he was the CIA director, the affidavit said.
Bautista-Bonneau barricaded himself inside the mail room by placing a chair beneath the door handle and refused to come out, the affidavit said. Two deputy marshals breached the door and fired a Taser at Bautista-Bonneau as they attempted to place him in handcuffs, the affidavit said.
Portland police had ambulance paramedics evaluate the man, arrested him on a trespassing allegation and escorted him to Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center.
By 2:24 p.m., Bautista-Bonneau had escaped from his hospital hold and about a half hour later was seen walking around the perimeter of the federal courthouse, according to the affidavit.
Portland police put him in handcuffs at 3:08 p.m. and this time federal officers took him to jail.
Bautista-Bonneau faced nine different criminal cases in Multnomah and Washington counties in 2022, convicted of burglary, unauthorized use of a vehicle, attempted burglary, resisting arrest and fourth-degree assault. In May 2022, a pretrial sentence assessment classified him as a “high” risk level of re-offending, according to court records.
One of Bautista-Bonneau’s 2022 convictions resulted from him struggling with a Port of Portland police officer who asked him to stop sleeping on the floor near the ticketing area inside Portland International Airport, according to court records.
