AP finds pattern of ICE agent crimes, including Minnesota case

An Associated Press records review, summarized here by FOX 9, found at least 17 ICE employees and contractors convicted and six more awaiting trial in recent years for crimes ranging from domestic abuse and drunk driving to child‑sex stings and corruption, even as Congress handed the agency $75 billion in 2025 to expand arrests and detention. The Minnesota‑specific case involves ICE employment‑eligibility auditor Alexander Back, 41, who’s on administrative leave after pleading not guilty to attempted enticement of a minor; Bloomington police say he showed up to a sting thinking he was meeting a 17‑year‑old prostitute and told officers, "I’m ICE, boys" when they closed in. Other cases include Cincinnati field‑office supervisor Samuel Saxon, jailed on charges he strangled and brutally abused his girlfriend; Chicago officer Guillermo Diaz‑Torres, accused of crashing his car and passing out drunk with a government gun inside; officer Scott Deiseroth, caught driving drunk with his kids and trying to lean on his badge; and supervisor Koby Williams, now imprisoned after arriving at a Washington hotel in a government SUV packed with cash, booze, pills and Viagra to meet what he thought was a 13‑year‑old girl. The AP also documents a broader pattern of ICE workers at contract facilities abusing detainees and vulnerable people in their custody, raising sharp questions about how thoroughly the agency is vetting and policing its own ranks at the same time it is running a massive, error‑ridden surge across Minneapolis–St. Paul. For Twin Cities residents watching a few thousand federal agents swarm their streets, this isn’t an abstract national scandal — it goes straight to whether they can trust the people who now have the power to batter down doors, haul off kids, or shoot someone and write it up as "self‑defense."