ICE says 10 arrested in Annapolis area include some with gang ties, assault charges

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 10 people in the Annapolis area on Jan. 13, the agency said in a statement to the Capital Gazette.
The statement, sent via email over the weekend, followed Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman’s comment last week that at least seven people had been detained in ICE enforcement operations on Jan. 13.
ICE did not answer questions from the Capital Gazette about who was detained and whether the agency plans to maintain an increased presence in the area.
“Those arrested included individuals with alleged gang affiliations, assault charges, drug possession, DUI offenses, and prior removals from the U.S.,” ICE spokesperson Casey Latimer said in the statement. “No one wants gang members and violent thugs for neighbors. Why do sanctuary politicians continue to stand with criminal illegal aliens over American citizens?”
Pittman, a Democrat, said there were “unprecedented levels” of ICE activity in the county last week. In an interview with the Capital Gazette on Thursday, he said his office received more reports of ICE activity in more locations than it had received in the past.
Annapolis Mayor Jared Littmann, a Democrat, said Thursday that his office believes four of the people detained were in Annapolis.
Pittman said he posted about ICE’s activity in the Annapolis area on social media because he had received calls from people who expressed fear. In his post, Pittman said people can donate to the Family Protection Fund, which supports programs that benefit the county’s immigrant community.
As ICE makes headlines following a fatal shooting in Minneapolis, few details are available regarding the agency’s activity in Anne Arundel County.
On Christmas Eve, ICE agents shot a man in Glen Burnie during an immigration enforcement operation. Although the federal agency first said that both men injured in the incident had been in the same van that drove “directly at ICE officers,” the Department of Homeland Security later changed its story, saying that one of the injured men had been in ICE custody at the time of the shooting.
ICE and DHS, which oversees ICE, have not yet responded to the Capital Gazette’s requests for body camera footage from the Dec. 24 shooting.
Justin Mulcahy, a spokesperson for the Anne Arundel County Police Department, which is investigating the shooting, said Tuesday that the department does not have any updates on its investigation.
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