Immigration and Customs Enforcement mentioned on Wednesday that an unlawful migrant was detained in Washington, DC, after he was stopped by brokers and subsequently motioned that he would hurt himself with a butcher knife.
Jimmy Anderson Ayala Mayuri, of Peru, was stopped by federal officers on Wednesday as he was driving his meals truck within the nation’s capital, in response to ICE.
“Capital metropolis cleanup continues!” ICE wrote on X.
“Unlawful Peruvian alien Jimmy Anderson Ayala Mayuri offered a big butcher knife to federal officers and motioned that he’d hurt himself with it once we stopped his meals truck on Nationwide Park Service property in DC immediately,” the submit continued.
ICE mentioned the person briefly barricaded himself within the truck earlier than he was apprehended.
He will likely be detained till a deportation resolution is made, in response to the company.
This comes after President Donald Trump’s latest transfer to extend the presence of federal legislation enforcement in Washington in an effort to chop down on crime within the district, though the mayor has mentioned crime had already been on the decline within the metropolis.
The federal takeover of DC would additionally embody the deployment of the Nationwide Guard and the US Justice Division taking management of the town’s police division.
The arrest on Wednesday additionally comes amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation insurance policies concentrating on migrants in cities throughout the nation.