10 things about Bend, Oregon’s Jared Wise

Jared Lane Wise is a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Formed on July 26, 1908, the bureau is based in Washington, D.C., United States.

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BIOGRAPHY

Wise is an American man from Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, USA. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He previously lived in Washington, D.C., USA and in Centreville, Virginia, USA.
2. He has lived in different parts of Texas, USA including Austin, Fort Worth, New Braunfels and in different parts of California, USA including Calabasas, Modesto and Ripon.
3. From 2004 to 2017, he worked as a special agent or supervisory special agent for the FBI.
4. He helped FBI agents investigate the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.
5. After leaving the FBI in 2017, he joined the conservative group Project Veritas under the supervision of former British spy Richard Seddon, trained at a ranch in Wyoming, USA with other recruits and was assigned to infiltrate teacher unions in four U.S. states namely Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.
6. While working as a consultant in Bend in 2021, he traveled to Washington, D.C. to support Donald Trump.
7. In 2022, he moved to Bend.
8. In 2023, he was arrested.
9. In 2025, Trump pardoned him and he became a U.S. Department of Justice employee.
10. On August 5, 2025, he turned 53.

TIMELINE

On January 6, 2021, Wise told police officers outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. that they were like the Gestapo. He was caught on camera telling rioters who were attacking law enforcement officers, “Kill ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!”

2021

• On January 6, 2021, he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. and breached the building while a joint session of U.S. Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election.

2022

• On January 26, 2022, an anonymous tipster told FBI’s field office in Washington, USA that he was inside the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, which was confirmed by surveillance footage.
• On June 25, 2022, he left his apartment in New Braunfels and moved to Bend.

2023

• On April 12, 2023, U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya signed a criminal complained filed by an FBI special agent against him.
• On May 1, 2023, he was arrested in Oregon. After his initial court appearance in Eugene, Oregon, a federal magistrate judge ordered is release from custody. He was charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building; disorderly conduct in a restricted building; disorderly conduct with an intent to impede an orderly session of U.S. Congress; and unlawfully parading, demonstrating or picketing in a U.S. Capitol building.

2025

• In January 2025, he went on trial but federal Judge Randolph D. Moss formally dismissed his case after he was pardoned by Trump.
• On July 1, 2025, the New York Times reported his employment as a counselor to Ed Martin, who became the director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Weaponization Working Group in May 2025.