Federal immigration agents arrested a man at the Bolingbrook Police Department Tuesday morning, following a confrontation with immigration agents, according to local authorities.
Bolingbrook police in a news release said federal agents were conducting “targeted immigration enforcement” at a home on Hywood Lane in the southwest suburb when they came in contact with a 40-year-old man sitting in a nearby pickup truck. Agents relayed to police that the man was ordered to identify himself and exit the car.
But the man proceeded to “drive through the grass before intentionally ramming an agent’s vehicle head-on, while it was parked with its emergency lights activated,” police said, citing agents. The man then fled in his vehicle and drove to the Bolingbrook Police Department to report the encounter, per authorities.
Bolingbrook officers were dispatched to the department lobby at about 7:40 a.m. Before officers arrived, the man was taken into custody by federal agents, police said.
Police said their only involvement was filing a report for criminal damage to property for the “alleged intentional” crash on Hywood.
The Tribune has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
