A TikTok influencer who used her platform to movie ICE brokers in Los Angeles and report on their whereabouts live-streamed her personal arrest after feds busted on prices that she was within the nation illegally.
Colombian nationwide Tatiana Martinez, 24, was nabbed whereas she was parked at her condo constructing in downtown LA on Aug. 15.
Her lawyer, Carlos Jurado, stated his consumer was focused for utilizing her large social media attain of greater than 47,000 followers to report ICE operations.
“The rationale she didn’t come out is, these are, these are masked males, and so they stated they’d a warrant. She simply needed them to show it, ‘Present me the warrant,’ and so they by no means displayed something,” stated Jurado.
“We consider, at this level, primarily based on issues which have been stated to her, is that, as a result of she was out filming ICE actions, she was focused,” Jurado stated.
However legislation enforcement sources advised The Put up that Martinez crossed the southern border illegally in 2022 and was promptly launched into the nation.
She was later arrested and convicted for a DUI, triggering her arrest by the feds, ICE stated.
“This influencer drove below the affect — and acquired convicted for it in Los Angeles,” ICE stated in an X publish following the arrest.
Martinez handed out whereas she was being collared and was transported to a hospital, sources and Jurado stated.
She was later taken to a federal detention heart in Calexico close to the Mexican border, in keeping with Jurado.
“I’ve gone on the market to go to her. It’s a few three-and-a-half, four-hour drive there and again. So I went there to go to her. She was actually completely satisfied to only see somebody,” Jurado stated.
“I can inform you that I might nonetheless see bruises on her physique from the arrest.”
