‘Like playing Russian roulette’: Cyclist fatally struck by DEA agent who ran stop sign during drug surveillance operation

Inset: Marganne Allen (GoFundMe). Background: The scene where Allen was struck by a vehicle in Oregon (KPTV).

Inset: Marganne Allen (GoFundMe). Background: The scene where Allen was struck by a vehicle in Oregon (KPTV).

The husband of an Oregon bicyclist killed by a Drug Enforcement Administration alleges in a lawsuit that the agent was negligent when he ran a stop sign during a drug surveillance operation.

Mark A. Meleason, the husband of Marganne Allen, 53, says in his lawsuit seeking $2.5 million that Samuel Landis, 39, was negligent and caused Allen’s death on March 28, 2023, in Salem.

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