# What is the follow-up on unmarked vans in Portland? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 31, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-follow-up-on-unmarked-vans-in-portland/919478 "2020-08-31T20:36:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jebert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ec9cab/32.png) [@jebert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jebert)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-follow-up-on-unmarked-vans-in-portland/919478/1 "2020-08-31T20:36:51Z")
There were reports of unidentified, armed men taking protesters in Portland into custody in unmarked vans. The unidentified men were later suspected as being from from Homeland Security, but I haven’t heard anything as to the outcome of the people taken into custody. Has there been any follow-up on these reports? Are there people who have been “disappeared?” ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-follow-up-on-unmarked-vans-in-portland/919478/2 "2020-08-31T23:41:36Z")
No, None of the people who were stopped and placed in vans during the Portland events by local or federal officers have permanently disappeared. All have been accounted for. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-follow-up-on-unmarked-vans-in-portland/919478/3 "2020-09-01T00:16:53Z")
> [@Sigene](#): > > All have been accounted for. That is 🙂 all _known_ people have been accounted for. [Jason Bourne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Bourne) didn’t have any family or friends to report him missing…