2504: How to Spot a Fake ICE Agent

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Javier Leiva

Society & Culture, True Crime, Technology

4.7 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Criminals have been impersonating ICE agents, using fake badges to rape, rob, kidnap, and terrorize communities across America. These imposters have conducted workplace raids, street stops, and home invasions. They wear tactical gear, drive unmarked vehicles, and ask "Are you a U.S. citizen?" Our investigation documented 13 cases spanning from 2016 to last week. We also talk with Laura Jadeed, a reporter who received a job offer from ICE despite skipping most of the application process. Content Warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault, police violence, and the deaths of U.S. citizens. Listener discretion is advised. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.2	terms at Accardo.com.
0:37.3	It's Sunday morning, January 26 and and a motel in Raleigh, North Carolina.
0:41.3	Police say Carl Thomas Bennett Jr. enters a motel room and told the woman that was staying
0:47.3	there that he was a U.S. immigration and custom enforcement agent, ICE.
0:53.3	Then he told her that if she didn't have sex with him,
0:57.7	he'd have her deported.
0:59.6	The warrant lists multiple charges,
1:01.6	breaking and entering, kidnapping,
1:04.0	second degree forcible rape.
1:06.2	It goes on and on.
1:07.9	When they arrest Bennett later that day,
1:10.0	police found cocaine and a glass pipe in his possession.
1:13.9	That was Sunday.
1:15.1	By Tuesday, there was another case of a fake ice agent in Orlando.
1:20.6	A man named Stephen Donovan knocked on an apartment door demanding to be let inside.
1:25.8	He said he was with the Department of Homeland Security and needed
1:29.4	to investigate illegal immigrants. And as I'm prepping this episode, just last week, a Newark man
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