ICE arrests 13 after tip on truck drivers at Pennsylvania DMV sparks chaotic scene
Armstrong County Sheriff Frank Pitzer said multiple people fled federal agents and abandoned vehicles in the street during a chaotic scene outside a PennDOT licensing center near Kittanning, Pennsylvania, where...
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Armstrong County Sheriff Frank Pitzer said multiple people fled federal agents and abandoned vehicles in the street during a chaotic scene outside a PennDOT licensing center near Kittanning, Pennsylvania, where more than a dozen illegal immigrants were ultimately arrested. "It went even as far as people exiting their vehicles and abandoning them on the street," Pitzer told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . Authorities said the incident followed tips from the public reporting numerous suspected immigrant drivers — many operating tractor-trailers — outside the West Kittanning Driver’s Licensing Center. One witness told Fox News Digital he contacted DHS and filmed the scene Friday morning after noticing an "unusual amount" of people gathered outside the facility. SOME STATES HAVE LET UNQUALIFIED FOREIGN DRIVERS ON THE ROAD AND AMERICANS PAY THE PRICE Pitzer said he received reports that multiple individuals attempted to flee when agents arrived, as eyewitness accounts described brief chaos in the area. The sheriff told the paper he supports Trump’s enforcement efforts but wanted to see a "better plan" in situations like Friday’s, where he said only a "handful" of agents tried to handle "over 100 people." Zach Scherer, a Butler-area firefighter and activist who was in attendance when President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated in that adjoining county in 2024, told Fox News Digital he filmed video early Friday showing an unusually large number of people outside the DLC. "I reached out to local law enforcement as well as a call to DHS Pittsburgh [to] let them know," Scherer said. "That’s when police came, as well as ICE. Later in the afternoon when I got to the DMV, there was still ICE present and 13 illegals were arrested," said Scherer, who also shared video from the DLC he took himself. Another man walked into the DLC and began filming and asking those in line where they were from. One man said "China," which the videographer suggested was a sarcastic remark, while ot…