Posted on 07/23/2025 6:36:28 PM PDT by 11th_VA
AVON, Ind. — Federal immigration authorities made 20 arrests during a traffic blitz in Avon on Tuesday, sources tell FOX59/CBS4.
Those sources said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) worked with the Avon Police Department to conduct several dozen traffic stops throughout the town to detain illegal immigrants.
There are no police reports from Avon police documenting the arrests and they do not appear in the Hendricks County Jail public log.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed they were part of the operation.
“We did not conduct traffic stops as the FBI is not authorized to conduct those,” a spokesperson said in a statement. “We were there to assist Avon Police and ICE/ERO with any needed federal warrants.”
After numerous attempts to obtain information, Avon Police Chief Sean Stoops sent FOX59/CBS4 a lengthy email that framed the operation differently.
He confirmed that his officers conducted a “traffic blitz” in the Avon area and made numerous stops for reasons such as traffic violations, registration violations and aggressive driving.
“During a few of these traffic stops, our police officers encountered undocumented and/or unlicensed foreign nationals,” Chief Stoops wrote. “Avon Police officers requested assistance from Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents. Agents responded to the traffic stop location and assisted with identifying the foreign nationals and conducted their own investigation into the status of those individuals.”
However, sources tell FOX 59/CBS 4 that ICE reached out to Avon police first. The agency also contacted other police departments, who declined to participate.
In his statement, Stoops said his department works with all federal law enforcement agencies and that if they request their help, his officers will assist...
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Love the strategy here as well -
An FBI spokesperson confirmed the agency assisted ICE and the Avon Police Department with executing a series of federal warrants on Tuesday, July 22.
The FBI has confirmed ICE agents and Avon police executed federal search warrants on Tuesday.
In a statement given to 13News, an FBI spokesperson said the FBI has been assisting ICE with “normal operations” for “several months.”
“We did not conduct traffic stops as the FBI is not authorized to conduct those,” a spokesperson said in a statement.
Is the FBI authorized to put people in gulags for 2 or 3 years with no trial for trespassing? The FBI should STFU about everything. Nobody wants to hear from them unless they’re being arrested.
Thank you for putting the state in brackets in the headline!!
I would have assumed Avon, Connecticut.
Talk to Jan 6 people who were locked up longer for just trespassing.
ICE to driver with human trafficking passengers in car:
We’re just making a routine stop here. Checking if you have your seat belts on. And whether we can run your ugly rear ends into a van and to a holding cell and then on to your felony booking.
Some were charged with ‘parading in the Capital
Yes and one man in prison who wasn’t even present at the Capitol that day.
Not to mention Ashli Babbitt, RIP.
Avon, IN is the next town over from me. This doesn’t surprise me. Even here, we have seen a huge influx of Hispanics, among other nationalities, in the last few years.
You can see the illegals begging for rent money, in Spanish no less, in front of a store that’s actively advertising that they are hiring.
Keep going ICE!
“””I would have assumed Avon, Connecticut.”””
We have an Avon in Minnesota. Exit 153 on I-94.
The browning of the Heartland.
Didn’t there used to be a commercial: “Avon calling!” ??
It’s been browning for a while, but the last few years, it’s been on another level altogether.
My maternal grandparents were immigrants (legal) and had to stay at Ellis Island for several weeks. Their names are recorded there.
They had to learn English, and become productive citizens that weren’t dependent on others for their wellbeing. Becoming naturalized citizens was among their proudest accomplishments, not to mention learning the language.
I only wish that our newest immigrants would do things the way my grandparents had to do.
There’s an Avon in Colorado too.
KEEP REMINDING YOURSELF HOW MUCH OF YOUR AUTO INSURANCE PREMIUM IS “UNINSURED DRIVERS” PROTECTION.
MY 1976 truck===48.8% of the total premium & I hardly drive it any more. 39% on my 1979 wagon-—which I drive under 2000 miles a year.
And we have an Avon in the county of Somerset in England. It would be nice if ICE could round up and deport a few of the illegals here as well!
Tell me when they make a 100,000 K arrest. Small potatoes.
ALL illegals OUT! Get OUT!!!
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