An Iranian illegal immigrant’s wife allegedly threatened to shoot ICE agents in the head when they came to the couple’s Arizona home trying to arrest her husband after he ignored a removal order for more than a decade.
Linet Vartanians, 37, is accused of telling the feds she had a loaded gun and would shoot anyone who tried to enter the couple’s home in Tempe, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
She also allegedly threatened to shoot ICE officers in the head who were outside of the home on Saturday.
Both Vartanians and her illegal immigrant husband, Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand, 40, were federally indicted Tuesday, according to the US Attorney’s office.
Eidivand has had a deportation order since 2013, but never left the country.
When ICE officers showed up at the couple’s home, they encountered Vartanians, who refused to open the door and told them to come back with a warrant before she called local cops on them, according to the US Attorney.
Hed: Wife of Iranian illegal immigrant accused of threatening to shoot ICE agents in the head when they came to arrest her husband
A police dispatcher who spoke with Eidivand said the illegal immigrant shared that they had three guns in the home.
The feds returned the next day and executed a search warrant on the home, finding a loaded gun on the kitchen counter and another on a nightstand.
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The couple was arrested that day.
The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to nab Iranian nationals as part of its mass deportation agenda and following US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.
In the last week, ICE collared 130 Iranian illegal immigrants, including terror suspects, who were roaming the US, according to NewsNation.
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