Feds Take Man Into Custody At Bolingbrook Police Department

BOLINGBROOK, IL — A Bolingbrook man was taken into custody by federal agents at Bolingbrook Police Department as the man went to report an incident to local law enforcement, Bolingbrook Police said in a news release.

Police said that at 7:42 a.m. Tuesday, officers were called to the police department lobby to meet with someone about an encounter they had with law enforcement. Responding officers were then met by federal law enforcement agents who had taken a 40-year-old man into custody for an incident that happened before he had arrived at the department, police said.

Patch asked Bolingbrook Police to confirm which agency the federal agents were from, and was told agents were from HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) and DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration).

Police said the agents were conducting "targeted immigration enforcement at a residence without the knowledge or assistance of the Bolingbrook Police Department."

The federal agents told police that agents were at Hywood Lane conducting this immigration enforcement at a home. During their investigation, the agents came into contact with the 40-year-old man, who was inside a nearby pick-up truck, according to police.

The agents told police the man was ordered to identify himself and exit the vehicle. The man refused the agents’ orders and drove through the grass before intentionally ramming an agent’s vehicle head-on, while it was parked with its emergency lights activated, federal agents told police.

The man fled and went to the Bolingbrook Police Department to report the encounter, where he was taken into custody by the federal agents prior to the arrival of Bolingbrook officers, BPD said.

"The Bolingbrook Police Department's only involvement was filing a report for criminal damage to property for the alleged intentional vehicular collision that occurred on Hywood Lane," police said.