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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 22 > An artifact collector - with little collection left

An artifact collector - with little collection left

Federal agents seized about 1,700 artifacts from Miles Simpson’s collection of American Indian antiquities. More than three years later, the Bend man is working to get it all back — and he insists he did nothing wrong.

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
June 22, 2008

On the morning of Jan. 25, 2005, federal agents pounded on the door of Miles Simpson’s Bend house.

His girlfriend opened the door, and armed officers from the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, FBI and other agencies rushed in to execute a search warrant, Simpson....

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