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FRESNO, Calif (KSEE/KGPE) - Two men were arrested aft harassing customers astatine 11 antithetic businesses astatine the River Park buying halfway successful Fresno connected Wednesday.
Officials accidental the Fresno Police Department began receiving calls stating 2 males dressed arsenic “ICE Agents” were harassing customers astatine antithetic businesses. The callers stated that the 2 men were impersonating Federal migration officials and were filming their confrontations with assemblage members.
Officers recovered the 2 men extracurricular of a concern successful the River Park buying center. When officers contacted them, officials accidental some were recovered to beryllium wearing achromatic tactical vests.
The vests had patches that they purposely partially covered but made to look similar the words “Police” and “ICE”.
Police accidental it was determined that some men had gone to assorted businesses, acting arsenic though they were officers, and filming their confrontations with the nationalist to upload onto their societal media.
At 1 location, officials accidental they told employees they were conducting an probe and
needed to spot concern documents.
Both males were arrested for the misdemeanor transgression of Impersonating a Police Officer. Officials accidental some were cited for the charges and released.
The Fresno Police Department says that the names of the suspects were not officially released arsenic their actions were designed to summation attraction for their societal media pages.
