CBS News reports an alleged ICE agent caught driving near the Florida Keys attempted several tactics to avoid arrest, one of them including intimidating an arresting officer with an accent.
“Are you Haitian?" the arrestee demanded. "My question was ‘Are you Haitian?’”
“It doesn’t matter where he’s from,” one of the officers replied.
CBS News reports the Monroe County Sheriff's Office (MCSO ) arrested 42-year-old Scott Thomas Deiseroth of Miami on Wednesday afternoon after another motorist called to report his reckless driving. He is currently in jail and facing a DUI charge, along with two counts of child endangerment, authorities said.
The sheriff’s office reports two children, ages 7 and 9, were inside Deiseroth’s vehicle. Deputies also smelled a "strong odor of alcohol" emanating from Deiseroth, who also misidentified his location and gave an erroneous travel direction, the agency added. Officers informed him that he was “about 100 miles off” from where he thought he was at the time of his confrontation with deputies.
Later, as Deiseroth was being loaded into a deputy’s patrol car, he shouted “I’m a f—— law enforcement, dude!”
“Then stop talking and sit in the back of the car and stop this,” an arresting officer said.
“No! I’m not going in there! Let me talk to your supervisor.” Deiseroth said.
“Don’t be a kid,” another officer said.
“G—— you guys!” Deiseroth snapped as he was maneuvered into the vehicle.
In the video, Deiseroth was unable to present identification confirming his employment with Homeland Security.
CBS reports after Deiseroth failed standardized field exercises, he was taken to jail. MCSO said the children were turned over to a family member and that they notified the Florida Department of Children and Families about the incident.
Deiseroth told officers during his interview that he was in the middle of a divorce: “Don’t do this! Come on, guys. I’m going through a divorce. Don’t take my kids, man!”
Read the full CBS report at this link.