Florida lady poses an ICE agent to kidnap spouse of former boyfriend

[ad_1] A Florida lady posed as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and briefly kidnapped her ex-boyfriend's spouse from her job, authorities mentioned.

Sporting a black shirt with ICE printed on the entrance, Latrance Battle, 52, went to the lady's office at a lodge chain on April 10 carrying a black shirt with ICE printed on the entrance, in accordance with the Bay County Sheriff's Office.

Battle, who had a hand-held radio together with her, flashed a sheriff's workplace enterprise card and informed the lady she needed to depart together with her, the BCSO mentioned.

Fox Information Digital has reached out to the sheriff's workplace.

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Latrance Battle, 52, was arrested for allegedly posing as an immigration agent and kidnapping the spouse of her former boyfriend. (Bay County Sheriff's Workplace)

"Because of being in concern, the sufferer received within the car and went willingly with Latrance," a sheriff's workplace assertion mentioned. "The sufferer confirmed that she genuinely felt as if Latrance was an ICE agent on the time and she or he is within the strategy of changing into a authorized United States resident."

As Battle drove, she spoke into her hand-held radio, which furthered the sufferer's perception that she was being taken by an ICE agent, the kidnapped lady informed authorities, in accordance with the Miami Herald .

In the course of the trip, the lady tried calling her husband and her lawyer earlier than Battle "forcefully snatched" the cellphone from her hand, deputies wrote.

The girl grew to become suspicious once they arrived on the Bridge Plaza condominium advanced the place Battle mentioned further ICE brokers can be current, the newspaper reported.

"The sufferer suspected one thing was fallacious as a result of Latrance informed the sufferer they have been going to the Sheriff’s Workplace," the sheriff's workplace mentioned. "As Latrance went contained in the condominium, the sufferer fled and referred to as regulation enforcement."

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Battle is going through expenses of kidnapping within the fee of a felony, theft by sudden snatching, impersonating a regulation enforcement officer within the fee of a felony and felony violation of probation. (John Moore/Getty Pictures)

The girl informed deputies that she hid behind a neighbor’s automotive. When Battle got here out of her condominium, she noticed the neighbor and requested him if he had seen a lady operating, the neighbor informed deputies.

Battle informed the neighbor she took the lady’s cellphone as a result of "she is aware of what she did," investigators mentioned. The neighbor let the kidnapped lady into his condominium till regulation enforcement arrived, the place she referred to as her husband and described the pretend ICE agent, authorities mentioned.

The husband mentioned the outline seemed like his ex-girlfriend, who had proven up at his work two years earlier and attacked him, prompting him to file a restraining order towards her, in accordance with the Miami Herald.

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Battle was arrested on her manner to Alabama and charged with kidnapping in fee of a felony, theft by sudden snatching, impersonating a regulation enforcement officer within the fee of a felony and felony violation of probation.