Iowa school superintendent arrested by ICE, facing prior weapons charges, allegedly found with loaded handgun

Ian Andre Roberts was living illegally in U.S. after his student visa expired, authorities say

 By Louis Casiano , Bill Melugin Fox News

Published September 26, 2025 4:35pm EDT

An Iowa school district superintendent living in the United States illegally who also faces weapons charges was arrested Friday, authorities said.

Ian Andre Roberts, who heads the Des Moines Public Schools—the largest school district in the state—was taken into custody on a fugitive warrant. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents pursued Roberts after he sped away, authorities said.

They later found his vehicle abandoned, and an Iowa State Patrol K-9 was called in to help search for him.

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Ian Roberts, head of Des Moines Public Schools, was arrested by immigration authorities on Friday after a brief chase, Roberts was living in the United States illegally, authorities said.  (Getty Images; ICE)

“After a search of the area, the subject was located in the brush approximately 200 yards south of where the vehicle was abandoned,” an ICE statement said.

Inside the vehicle, authorities found $3,000 in cash, a fixed-blade hunting knife, and a loaded Glock 19 firearm, ICE said.

 “This suspect was arrested in possession of a loaded weapon in a vehicle provided by Des Moines Public Schools after fleeing federal law enforcement,” said ICE Enforcement Removal Operations St. Paul Field Office Director Sam Olson. “This should be a wake-up call for our communities to the great work that our officers are doing every day to remove public safety threats. How this illegal alien was hired without work authorization, a final order of removal, and a prior weapons charge is beyond comprehension and should alarm the parents of that school district.”

Roberts entered the U.S. illegally from Guyana, authorities said. He last entered the country through New York on Aug. 30, 1999, on an F-1 student visa to attend St. John’s University in Queens.

Roberts was not legally authorized to work in the U.S. after his employment authorization card expired in 2020, authorities said.

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Authorities said a handgun was found in a vehicle used by Ian Roberts to flee from pursuing ICE agents.  (ICE)

“Subject was encountered by Port Authority PD and arrested for weapons possession charges, which are still pending,” ICE said of existing weapon possession charges from Feb. 5, 2020.

On May 22, 2024, a judge ordered that he be deported. The proceedings were held in absentia. On April 24, 2025, an immigration judge in Dallas denied a motion to reopen the case.

Roberts was hired to serve as superintendent for Des Moines Public Schools on July 1, 2023, following a nationwide search for qualified candidates. A statement announcing his hiring said he was “chosen through a comprehensive national search based on the leadership profile prepared by the Board after receiving input from staff, parents, students and community members.”

“Dr. Roberts proudly shares that he was born to immigrant parents from Guyana, and spent most of his formative years in Brooklyn, NY.,” the DMPS news release stated at the time.  

Roberts worked in education in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and St. Louis. 

A message from Des Moines School Board Chair Jackie Norris said Associate Superintendent Matt Smith will serve as interim superintendent until further notice.

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“This action follows Dr. Ian Roberts being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents this morning. We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps,” the Friday message stated.

Before a career in education, Roberts competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in track and field for Guyana as a middle-distance runner, the Des Moines Register reported.

Roberts also served on the board of the Directors Council, a local comprising several nonprofits focused on Des Moines’ Black community.

“Dr. Roberts has been a trusted partner, a dedicated advocate for equity, and an unwavering supporter of families and youth in Polk County,” the group said in a statement. “His contributions to both The Directors Council and the wider community are immeasurable, and we stand with him during this uncertain moment.”

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“We know this news raises many questions and concerns. As an organization, our priority is to continue advancing our mission with stability and integrity while also offering our full support to Dr. Roberts and his family,” the statement continued. “We are committed to sharing updates with you as we receive confirmed information.”

Opinion Miranda Devine

Opinion

This is a reckoning of James Comey’s own making — and Dems for weaponizing justice system first

By 

Miranda Devine

Published Sep. 28, 2025, 9:55 p.m. ET

In the wake of James Comey’s indictment, Democrats like Richard Blumenthal and Eric Swalwell are issuing dark warnings with a straight face that “what goes around comes around” and that anyone who cooperates with Donald Trump’s “vengeance prosecutions” will face retribution when Dems are back in charge.

But their threats fall on deaf ears because they started it. Democrats long ago weaponized the justice system against their political opponents.

Let us count the ways.

On Joe Biden’s watch, Trump faced four separate indictments with 88 criminal charges; more than 1,500 Trump supporters were arrested and over-prosecuted in the J6 investigation; Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were jailed for contempt of Nancy Pelosi’s J6 star chamber; Trump adviser Roger Stone was arrested at dawn in a heavy-handed SWAT raid; Comey entrapped Trump National Security Advisor Gen. Michael Flynn; the DOJ, FBI and IRS covered up Biden corruption and jailed whistleblowers Gal Luft and Alexander Smirnov. To name a few.

Conservatives of every stripe were under legal assault. The FBI spied on school board meetings and Catholics at Latin Mass.

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FBI agents were subjected to politically motivated loyalty tests to weed out those suspected of supporting Trump.

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Joe Biden pressured AG Merrick Garland to investigate Trump and lay off his son — only he did it through anonymous leaks to The New York Times rather than out in the open on Truth Social.

‘Unforgivable’

“James Comey deserves our utter contempt for the damage he did to our system of justice along with the rule of law in America,” says Flynn.

Like Comey, Flynn was charged with making false statements to government officials during an official proceeding, Flynn to the FBI, Comey to Congress.

In January 2017, days after Trump took office, Comey sent two FBI agents to visit Flynn, the newly appointed national security adviser, to question him about legitimate phone calls he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak after the election.

Flynn was charged with making false statements to the FBI, which he denied, but when prosecutors threatened to charge his son, he pleaded guilty.

“I sent them [the agents],” Comey bragged of his violation of policy, in an on-stage interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.

“Something I wouldn’t have done or got away with a more organized administration, in the George W. Bush administration, for example, or the Obama administration,” he said. “[But] I thought: it’s early enough, let’s just send a couple of guys over.”

The audience laughed.

For Flynn, a military veteran, and patriot, whose advice Trump never got the benefit of, Comey’s idle abuse of power led to years of torment.

He lost his house, his business, and most of his savings fighting the case before Trump pardoned him.

“What he did to my family, the Trump administration and to the people of America is unforgivable,” says Flynn. “He should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.”

Another Trump intimate, Roger Stone, was charged with the same offenses as Comey: making false statements to Congress and obstruction of a congressional proceeding, like Flynn over fake Russia collusion allegations.

Yet, unlike Comey, Stone wasn’t afforded the genteel route of turning himself in to authorities at his leisure.

In the predawn darkness of Jan. 25, 2019, a heavily armed FBI SWAT team stormed Stone’s house with a CNN camera crew in tow to capture his distress as he and his wife were marched outside in their pajamas at gunpoint. Stone lost his home, his savings, his insurance and even his car in the endless legal saga, which also only ended when Trump pardoned him.

“There is no better example of the two-tiered justice system,” says Stone.

“The judge issued a broad gag order preventing me from defending myself in public, arguing that my public defense could ‘taint the jury pool’ which, of course, does not explain why she left the gag order in place after my conviction, and after I was sentenced,” he says, wondering, “Why is there no gag order on James Comey?”

Justice ‘hot and cold’

Good question. As soon as he was indicted last week, Comey posted a self-righteous, self-pitying video on Instagram declaring his innocence and posing as a Resistance hero.

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“My family and I have known for years that there are costs for standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees,” he said.

Peter Navarro, another senior adviser in Trump’s first administration, was jailed last March for four months for defying a congressional subpoena from the J6 committee, the first time in 40 years that anyone has been sent to jail for contempt of Congress.

Like Stone, Navarro wants to know why Comey is being treated with kid gloves in contrast to his own brutal arrest in 2022 at Reagan National Airport as he boarded a plane for Nashville.

Navarro was handcuffed, shackled in leg irons, strip-searched and thrown in a jail cell.

“How come Comey is allowed to self-surrender when they sent five armed FBI agents to take me down?” he asked.

“My message to the Republican National Convention the day I got out of prison was simple: If we don’t hold them accountable, they will do it again,” says Navarro, who just published a book about his ordeal: “I Went To Prison So You Won’t Have To.”

“They include not just Comey but [Barack] Obama, [Hillary] Clinton, [James] Clapper, [Lisa] Page, [Peter] Strzok, [Rod] Rosenstein and the FBI agent who put me in leg irons, Walter Giardina,” he says. “No martyrs among them, only perpetrators.”

He could have added other devious former coup plotters, such as CIA Director John Brennan, New York AG Letitia James and Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff, who are currently under investigation.

Steve Bannon is another former Trump adviser attacked with Democrat lawfare who, like Navarro, was jailed for contempt of Congress.

He describes the Comey indictment as merely “an appetizer for a full meal we are going to ram down the throat of the Deep State.”

“The internal enemies of our country better lawyer up because justice is being served in the best way possible — cold and hard.”

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Back when the shoe was on the other foot, the same Democrats and their media handmaidens who are now hyperventilating about Comey getting the start of his just deserts, couldn’t wait to get to a microphone to say: “No one is above the law.”

Even when the FBI conducted an armed raid on the home of a former president — Trump’s Mar-a-Lago — and rifled through Melania Trump’s underwear drawer, Dems just smirked and said: “We believe in the rule of law.”

So spare us the outrage.

Tit-for-tat indictments

The indictment of Comey is only “unprecedented” in the sense that Republicans have not played the game before.

Now they’re on the field and it’s scorched earth time.

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It’s not revenge. It’s accountability. It’s a necessary squaring up, evening the ledger, building deterrence.

As Trump said last week: “You can’t let this go on. They are sick, radical left people, and they can’t get away with it.”

Since the murder of Charlie Kirk we have seen the criminal element come out of the woodwork. Those who sow torment and destruction are in a class all by themselves. We know who they are, what they are, where they are and will teach them a lesson that they will never forget.

They can hide from the law, but in the end we will find them. Not only are they illegals, they are criminals who broke into our country. They are the liberal scum condoned by the perverted adminstation of Biden who harbor these POS. Don’t let anybody forget that a country without the enforcement of their laws is not a country at all. Borders don’t mean anything to them.

That brings us to Portland Oregon, the Philadelphia of the West. America has seen ANTIFA work their wares there in the past, but now we have a different situation.

Portland mayor condemns federal intervention, claims videos of anti-ICE riots were from years ago

By 

Alexandra Koch, Fox News

Published Sep. 28, 2025, 3:58 a.m. ET

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson on Saturday dismissed President Donald Trump’s plan to send federal troops to Oregon’s largest city, claiming there is no lawlessness or violence there.

Trump announced Saturday morning he plans to send troops to Portland at the request of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The president said he directed War Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide “all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists,” adding he was authorizing full force, if necessary.

Hours later, Wilson said during a news conference the number of necessary troops is “zero” in Portland, “and any other American city.”

“This is an American city,” Wilson said. “We do not need any intervention. This is not a military target.”

The mayor alleged the president would “not find” lawlessness or violence in the city, claiming video footage showing violence in the city was from five years ago was “recycled and then recycled again.”

“If President Trump came to Portland today, what he would find is people riding their bikes, playing sports, enjoying the sunshine, buying groceries or produce from a farmers’ market,” Wilson said. “We’ve had hard conversations, and we’ve done important work in the years since that footage was taken, we reformed our public safety system. We’ve refocused our community and on our economy, and we’ve redoubled our efforts to help our most vulnerable.”

The Big Man, 6 feet 8 inches tall, is going down, like a fallen treet; TIMEBER! According to Fox News, James Comey, the lying FBI head, will be indicted today for lying to Senate investigators.

Former FBI Director James Comey indicted by grand jury on two counts

Comey indicted for alleged false statements, obstruction of congressional proceeding

Comey was the FBI director when the bureau launched the ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ probe

By Brooke Singman , Greg Wehner Fox News

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted by a grand jury on two counts, alleged false statements within jurisdiction of the legislative branch and obstruction of congressional proceeding, Fox News Digital has learned.

Comey will reportedly turn himself in on Friday and his arraignment is set for 10 a.m. on Oct. 9, in Alexandria Courtroom 600 before District Juge Michael S. Nachmanoff. 

Fox News Digital exclusively reported in July that Comey was under criminal investigation by the FBI. The probe into Comey centered on whether he lied to Congress during his Sept. 30, 2020, testimony about his handling of the original Trump–Russia probe at the FBI, known inside the bureau as “Crossfire Hurricane.”

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In 2021 we demanded the execution of a Fort Hood Islamic for murduring in cold blood 13 of our valant soldiers. As seen below we wanted to know why he was no scheduled for execution.

WHY HASN’T THIS EXCREMENT BEEN EXECUTED?

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Fort Hood shooter congratulates Taliban from death row

Nidal Hasan, the radical Islamic terrorist who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, wrote a letter from death row, congratulating the Taliban as the terrorist group took control of Afghanistan.

In the letter – which Hasan’s attorney, retired Army Col. John Galligan, provided to Fox News – Hasan triumphantly declared, “We Have Won!!!”

Hasan, who fatally injured 13 and wounded more than 30 others, wrote the letter from death row at Fort Leavenworth Prison.

“All-Praises be to All-Mighty Allah! Congratulations on your victory over those who hate for the Laws of All-Mighty God to be supreme on the land,” Hasan wrote in a message he directed Galligan to forward to Taliban leadership.

However, Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of War will get the bullets rolling and put an end to this fiasco.

Defense Department Secretary Pete Hegseth is seeking the death penalty for former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people and injured dozens of others at Texas’s Fort Hood nearly 16 years ago. 

Hegseth is asking President Trump for final approval for the military execution of Hasan, an ex-Army psychiatrist who gunned down 13 people and wounded 32 others at the Army base near Killeen, Texas, in November 2009. 

In case you haven’t heard of the “Golden Rule” we will enlighten you. The rule stated that the one who has the gold , RULES. Now that you are enlightened we bring to your attention that Gold is now sell for over $3700 per ounce; Silver is on the move too as it approaches $45 per ounce.

Questions arise on why both metals are going parabolic. Like gold and silver, the United States budget deficit is marching to the same tune Foreign Central Banks are moving out of dollars into gold. For they know that Devil will have to be paid. Contrary to what the talking heads say, interest rates will soon reach 7% and could go to 10%.

Charlie Kirk: ‘You should be allowed to say outrageous things’

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Obama and Biden were the ones who coerced the Fake News Networks ot not reporting on Hunter’s lap top affair. including the stealing of Government Records which Biden kept in his garage. On top of that the Fake News Networks have never brought to light the Capo di Tutti Capi (Obama) who colloberated with Clinton on planting fake news regarding the Russian operation in the minds of the fake news media.

Listen to Karoline Leavitt and her reply to Obama’s lies that have bee farted by the left wing scum who want to destroy America.

Trump to honor Charlie Kirk at Arizona memorial, tens of thousands of young conservatives expected to attend

Memorial at State Farm Stadium expected to draw tens of thousands

By Stephen Sorace Fox News

Published September 21, 2025 7:37am EDT

Trump said he would attend Sunday’s memorial in Arizona to honor Kirk, though he admitted “there are no words to really describe what happened.”

Trump said he would attend Sunday’s memorial in Arizona to honor Kirk, though he admitted “there are no words to really describe what happened.”

Turning Point USA, the organization Kirk founded in 2012, released guidelines Saturday night for those attending the service, including a patriotic dress code and a strict no-bag policy.

The memorial, titled, “Building a Legacy: Remembering Charlie Kirk,” will begin at 11a.m. local time (2p.m. ET) and is “first come, first served based on stadium capacity,” according to the event website.