{"id":4807,"date":"2025-09-10T12:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/in-d-c-a-moped-on-the-ground-an-suv-full-of-us-marshals-and-a-mystery-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:39:44","slug":"in-d-c-a-moped-on-the-ground-an-suv-full-of-us-marshals-and-a-mystery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/in-d-c-a-moped-on-the-ground-an-suv-full-of-us-marshals-and-a-mystery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In D.C., a moped on the ground, an SUV full of US marshals and a mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dcsept32025-1024x701.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"U.S. Marshals and Homeland Security Investigations agents take a man into custody at the intersection of 14th and N streets NW in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 3, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray\/States Newsroom)\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Marshals and Homeland Security Investigations agents take a man into custody at the intersection of 14th and N streets NW in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 3 (Ashley Murray\/States Newsroom).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WASHINGTON \u2014 A siren blared down one of Washington, D.C.\u2019s busiest thoroughfares. And then, a loud noise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Residents in nearby apartment buildings peered through windows and from balconies to find a dark-colored SUV bumped up against a moped lying on the ground. A dog walker called 911 to report the incident before it became apparent that the unmarked vehicle belonged to federal law enforcement, when men in U.S. Marshals Service flak vests exited.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The rear driver-side tire on the Chevy Tahoe had completely blown and the marshals struggled to find a jack and spare while a uniformed Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer stood guard.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bystanders pulled out phones to record and heckled. \u201cShame, shame, shame,\u201d one repeatedly yelled. Another from a nearby apartment balcony screamed \u201cNazis!\u201d Eyewitnesses began exchanging bits and pieces of what they said they saw, that the driver of the moped fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe didn\u2019t get away though, did he? He\u2019s down there in custody,\u201d a U.S. marshal responded, gesturing to where the driver ran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The incident was like so many that have played out on the streets of Washington since Aug. 11, when President Donald Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/08\/declaring-a-crime-emergency-in-the-district-of-columbia\/\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a> a federal crime emergency in the District of Columbia: A detainee is taken away by federal agents, often with local law enforcement standing by, and with little information provided to the public.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the night of Sept. 3, a States Newsroom reporter witnessed and recorded most of the incident at 14th and N streets NW.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"fullwidth\"><\/div>\n<p><span><em><span>U.S. marshals and Homeland Security Investigations agents detain a man at the intersection of 14th and N streets Northwest in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (Video by Ashley Murray\/States Newsroom)<\/span><\/em><\/span> \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Earlier this summer, Trump ordered National Guard troops and Marines to the streets of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/judge-warns-national-police-force-ruling-trump-broke-law-sending-guard-la\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a> as his administration launched an immigration crackdown, muddling the messages on violent crime and immigration status.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In recent days Trump has threatened to\u00a0send National Guard troops to Chicago, Boston, Baltimore,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/trump-speculates-new-orleans-next-he-weighs-national-guard-expansion\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/trump-floats-portland-oregon-next-national-guard-deployment\" target=\"_blank\">Portland<\/a> and other Democratic-led cities. As of Monday, the administration\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/new-chicago-immigration-campaign-prompts-confusion-as-city-braces-for-federal-intervention\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> a wave of federal immigration agents were headed to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis is a big issue,\u201d said Mike Fox, legal fellow for the Cato Institute\u2019s\u00a0Project on Criminal Justice.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fox, whose think tank advocates for limited federal government, told States Newsroom in an interview about Trump\u2019s federalization of law enforcement in cities that he believes the strategy breaks down trust.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYou have unidentified federal agents coming in, seizing people\u2019s property, but more importantly, seizing people. It undermines the very premise upon which community policing is supposed to work,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite multiple inquiries, States Newsroom was not able to get any additional information on the man taken into custody.<\/p>\n<h4>Moped drivers\u00a0<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the night of Sept. 3, as U.S. marshals continued to struggle with the tire, Homeland Security Investigations agents arrived a short time later with a detainee in the back of a separate unmarked SUV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Eight marshals and Homeland Security Investigations agents surrounded the man to switch his restraints to a new set with chains around his waist and between his ankles. HSI is a law enforcement agency within U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, under the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">News outlets including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/world\/americas\/100000010349920\/dc-ice-deportations-delivery-drivers-immigrants.html?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/08\/17\/dc-arrests-violent-takedown-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellingcat.com\/news\/2025\/09\/08\/dc-trump-feds-immigration-delivery-riders\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bellingcat<\/a> have reported on the detainments of moped drivers in the district, and publicly crowd-sourced alerts from online monitor \u201cStop ICE Alerts\u201d have included sightings of federal agents stopping mopeds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure role=\"group\" class=\"caption caption-drupal-media  view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"drupal-media-wrapper media--view-mode-large\">\n<div class=\"blazy blazy--field blazy--view blazy--field-media-image blazy--field-media-image--large blazy--view--article-feeds-v2-feed-categorized-articles-v2 blazy--view--article-feeds-v2 blazy--view--article-feeds-v2--categorized-articles-v2 field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\" data-blazy>\n<div data-b-token=\"b-1c3c8275515\" class=\"media media--blazy media--image media--responsive is-b-loading\">  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__element b-lazy b-responsive img-fluid\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/mopedsign-scaled.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" alt=\"A demonstrator at a march on Sept. 6, 2025, protesting the Trump administration's federalization of law enforcement and deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., held a sign on 16th Street NW defending local moped food delivery drivers. (Photo by Ashley Murray\/States Newsroom)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">A demonstrator at a march on Sept. 6, 2025, protesting the Trump administration\u2019s federalization of law enforcement and deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., held a sign on 16th Street NW defending local moped food delivery drivers. (Photo by Ashley Murray\/States Newsroom)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 30-day federal crackdown has drawn widespread criticism and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsfromthestates.com\/article\/protesters-dc-flood-streets-demanding-end-trumps-military-deployment\" target=\"_blank\">protests<\/a> from district residents. District Mayor Muriel Bowser, however, has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/03\/washington-dc-mayor-trump-national-guard\" target=\"_blank\">agreed<\/a> to keep federal law enforcement on the streets beyond Trump\u2019s emergency, which ends Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Moped drivers who run food deliveries are a routine sight on D.C. streets, and many are from Latin America. Until recently, it wasn\u2019t uncommon to see groups of moped food delivery drivers along 14th Street NW before a day\u2019s work or on breaks between orders.<\/p>\n<h4>Law enforcement mum<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A States Newsroom reporter saw the man being taken into custody but his name and his citizenship or immigration status could not be determined, nor the reason why police chased him. Officers on the scene did not respond to shouted questions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The U.S. Marshals Service and Homeland Security Investigations have not provided information requested by States Newsroom regarding the incident, including whether the detainee was wanted on criminal charges or what happened to the moped that was left behind at the scene on a nearby sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">U.S. marshals are officers of the federal courts who usually apprehend fugitives and manage or sell seized assets. In January, Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/news\/2025\/01\/23\/statement-dhs-spokesperson-directive-expanding-immigration-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\">directed<\/a> numerous federal law enforcement agencies, including the Marshals Service, to \u201cinvestigate and apprehend illegal aliens.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">States Newsroom has filed Freedom of Information Act requests with both agencies for body camera footage and reports about the incident and apparent impact between the SUV and moped, among other records.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Similarly, the Washington Metropolitan Police Department did not provide information on the incident, despite its presence on the scene.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When asked by States Newsroom if the agency made any records of assisting federal agents that night, MPD spokesperson Tom Lynch responded, \u201cThere is no publicly available document for this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>\u2018It should scare people across the country\u2019<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cato\u2019s Fox said information on the federal crackdown in the district is scarce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAnd that should scare everyone in D.C. It should scare Congress. It should scare people across the country. This is not a D.C.-specific issue,\u201d Fox said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s D.C. Director Monica Hopkins told States Newsroom in a statement that \u201cthere are huge gaps and limitations in the accountability that is available to people\u201d when it comes to federal law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDespite the Trump administration\u2019s attempts at fear and intimidation, everyone in D.C. has rights, regardless of who they are and their immigration status,\u201d Hopkins said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The ACLU-DC is urging Congress to pass legislation barring federal immigration authorities from wearing face coverings and obscuring their agencies or identification when engaged in enforcement actions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Homeland Security Investigations agents and U.S. marshals at the incident witnessed by States Newsroom did not have their faces covered and were wearing vests identifying their respective agencies.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, agents carrying out detainments in balaclava-style face coverings or bandanas and plain clothes, donning vests that only say \u201cpolice,\u201d have been witnessed and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bcat-archive.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/no-dups\/c8796dd076ab6912fa79d53b\/ce18c742c9344e418bb1190a.html\" target=\"_blank\">recorded<\/a> by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/uber-eats-driver-detained-delivery-dc\/3977286\/\" target=\"_blank\">members of the public<\/a> and journalists.<\/p>\n<h4>Later that night<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As the scene wrapped up in Northwest D.C. on Sept. 3, immigrant advocates on bicycles arrived.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The volunteers said they were with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcmigrantmutualaid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid group,<\/a> a network in the D.C., Maryland and Virginia area collecting information on immigration arrests and raids. The group runs a hotline for arrest reports and for family members seeking relatives who may have been detained.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">States Newsroom contacted the mutual aid organization but could not obtain any details about the Sept. 3 incident.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Roughly an hour after police cleared that night, a States Newsroom reporter witnessed a small group of people surrounding the moped. A few tried to start the engine and removed at least one item from the under-seat storage compartment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The moped was no longer there the following morning.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">U.S. Marshals and the Department of Homeland Security have not responded to questions about the whereabouts of the moped.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Marshals and Homeland Security Investigations agents take a man into custody at the intersection of 14th and N streets NW in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 3 (Ashley Murray\/States Newsroom). 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