Florida woman poses as ICE agent to kidnap wife of ex-boyfriend from work, authorities say

A Florida pistillate posed arsenic a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cause and concisely kidnapped her ex-boyfriend's woman from her job, authorities said. 

Wearing a achromatic garment with ICE printed connected the front, Latrance Battle, 52, went to the woman's workplace astatine a edifice concatenation connected April 10 wearing a achromatic garment with ICE printed connected the front, according to the Bay County Sheriff's Office.

Battle, who had a hand-held vigor with her, flashed a sheriff's bureau concern paper and told the pistillate she had to permission with her, the BCSO said.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the sheriff's office. 

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Latrance Battle, 52, was arrested for allegedly posing arsenic an migration cause and kidnapping the woman of her erstwhile boyfriend. (Bay County Sheriff's Office)

"Due to being successful fear, the unfortunate got successful the conveyance and went willingly with Latrance," a sheriff's bureau connection said. "The unfortunate confirmed that she genuinely felt arsenic if Latrance was an ICE cause astatine the clip and she is successful the process of becoming a ineligible United States resident."

As Battle drove, she spoke into her hand-held radio, which furthered the victim's content that she was being taken by an ICE agent, the kidnapped pistillate told authorities, according to the Miami Herald. 

During the ride, the pistillate tried calling her hubby and her lawyer earlier Battle "forcefully snatched" the telephone from her hand, deputies wrote.

The pistillate became suspicious erstwhile they arrived astatine the Bridge Plaza flat analyzable wherever Battle said further ICE agents would beryllium present, the paper reported. 

"The unfortunate suspected thing was incorrect due to the fact that Latrance told the unfortunate they were going to the Sheriff’s Office," the sheriff's bureau said. "As Latrance went wrong the apartment, the unfortunate fled and called instrumentality enforcement."

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Battle is facing charges of kidnapping successful the committee of a felony, robbery by abrupt snatching, impersonating a instrumentality enforcement serviceman successful the committee of a felony and felony usurpation of probation. (John Moore/Getty Images)

The pistillate told deputies that she hid down a neighbor’s car. When Battle came retired of her apartment, she saw the neighbour and asked him if helium had seen a pistillate running, the neighbour told deputies. 

Battle told the neighbour she took the woman’s telephone due to the fact that "she knows what she did," investigators said. The neighbour fto the kidnapped pistillate into his flat until instrumentality enforcement arrived, wherever she called her hubby and described the fake ICE agent, authorities said.

The hubby said the statement sounded similar his ex-girlfriend, who had shown up astatine his enactment 2 years earlier and attacked him, prompting him to record a restraining bid against her, according to the Miami Herald.

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Battle was arrested connected her mode to Alabama and charged with kidnapping successful committee of a felony, robbery by abrupt snatching, impersonating a instrumentality enforcement serviceman successful the committee of a felony and felony usurpation of probation.