Ian Roberts, Superintendent of former Des Mine Public Schools, was accused of laying firearms on Thursday, while illegally in the US, it was less than a week later. taken into custody By immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) officers.
according to a criminal complaint Filed in the US district court for Iowa in the southern district, investigators found Roberts in the possession of four firearms – one in their car and three at their des mine house.
Last Friday, Roberts was detained by the Ice, cited an order to remove a removal signed by an immigration judge in 2024. Roberts also has an existing weapon charge from February 2020, the complaint said.
The criminal complaint stated that Roberts initially moved away from the snow authorities in his jeep Cherokee before leaving the vehicle in a nearby grass.
Iowa State Patrol officials later located Roberts located about 200 yards from their vehicle in a brush, and then taken into snow custody, according to the filing.
On searching for Roberts’s vehicle, investigators found a loaded handgun wrapped in a towel, said in the complaint. A mark for the weapon revealed that a woman admitted that Roberts’s wife bought a handgun in Arkansas in 2019.
By snowRoberts was also in possession of $ 3,000 cash and a certain blade hunting knife.
Roberts Resigned On Tuesday, he was a day later Placed on unpaid leave The school was canceled by the district and their education license by the board of educational examiners of Iowa.
Roberts is a Guyan citizen who arrived in the US on a student visa in March 1999, which ended in March 2004. Roberts applied for permanent residence in three times – May 2001, May 2018 and June 2018, but was rejected by US citizenship and immigration services (USCIS).
He became Superintendent of Des Mine Schools in July 2023.
The school district initially placed Roberts on a payment leave on Saturday, saying he felt that he was a legal American citizen.
Associated Press Report On Wednesday that despite knowing that the Des Minee School Board hired Roberts that he lied in 2007 to receive a doctorate under the educational leadership from Morgan State University. While public records show Roberts was admitted to the doctoral program from 2002 to 2007, he did not complete his degree.
Roberts’ lawyer, Alfredo Parish said on Thursday, “Our status – they currently have an innocence.” AP reported“He will exercise his right to indicate in court, if he is convicted, that he is not guilty.”
Parish also said that his client has not been convicted. Woodbury County Sheriff Office said Social media post On Thursday, Roberts was no longer there and claimed that he was taken into custody by the Department of Justice.
Associated Press contributed,
