De Mine, Iowa – Prosecutors said that the supervisor of the largest school area in Iowa, which immigration agents detained last week, was charged on Thursday at the Federal Court of possessing firearms while they were in the United States illegally.
Ian Roberts resigned this week as a director of school in De Mine, a few days after his withdrawal and fled from the enforcement of immigration and customs, who finally arrested him with the help of officers from the Iowa state. When he was arrested, federal agents found a pistol wrapped in a towel inside the Cherokee Jeep he was driving, according to court papers.
Roberts, originally from Guena, was imprisoned in the city of Six, about 150 miles (240 km) northwest of De Moen, since Friday afternoon. The officials said he was detained based on a federal arrest order on charges of weapons and a video appeared in front of the Federal Magistrate.
Roberts’s lawyer, Alfredo Parish, said his client will read that he is not guilty.
“Our position at this time – he has the assumption of innocence,” Parish said. Parish said: “He will exercise his right to refer to the court, if he is accused, that he was not guilty,” adding that there was no indictment renovated by the Grand jury.
Roberts, 54, claimed that he had four firearms, according to court documents. The authorities said that Roberts had been allowed to work in the United States between December 2018 and 2020, but since then “he has not had a legal mandate for employment,” according to the complaint.
The federal authorities said that Roberts had a final removal order that was issued last year, and the immigration judge denied a request to reopen the immigration case for Roberts in April this year. The complaint issued on Tuesday claimed that Roberts had the final removal order in a different car at his residence.
His lawyer said that Roberts was under the impression of a former lawyer that his immigration case was “successfully resolved.”
“It was a pleasure to raise you throughout this process, and I am pleased to inform you that your case had reached a successful solution,” wrote Texas Jacqueline Gonzalez on March 27.
One of the assistants of Gonzalez confirmed to the Associated Press on Tuesday that the law office represented Roberts, but did not make any immediate comment.
Gonzalez spoke earlier this week to federal officials and said that the message she sent had informed Roberts that the issue of immigration with the office of Gonzales had been closed, “according to court papers. Roberts had an unpaid legal bill with its office.
The court documents said: “Gonzalez added that the message was not intended to transmit it,” that his case with the court was completed.
Gonzalez refused to inform the authorities, however, about her communication with Roberts about the refusal of the immigration judge to reopen his case, which was sent to her office.
The authorities said that one of the firearms, who was found under the driver’s seat in his school car when he was arrested, was a pistol believed to have been purchased by Roberts’s wife. Al -Shukawi said that the other three – a pistol, a gun and a gun – were found during the inspection of Roberts’s house, all of them were loaded.