A hoax phone call claiming that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were on their way to a Goodyear warehouse touched off a chaotic scene last Friday, with workers crowding around a shut glass door and shoving to get out while a man allegedly blocked their exit. Goodyear police responded to the disturbance at the Quetico Logistics facility around 11:20 a.m. on August 14, and by the time officers arrived, the employees involved had already left the scene.
The warehouse, located near 143rd Avenue and Yuma Road, houses a retail distribution operation run by Quetico Logistics, which describes itself as a full-service retail distribution company. According to the Phoenix New Times, which first reported the incident, video captured workers crowded around a closed glass door as a white bald man blocked their exit while a woman could be heard yelling, “We will file charges,” followed by another voice shouting, “Let them go.”
Goodyear police later learned that the disturbance began after a caller, using an unknown or blocked phone number, claimed ICE was on its way to the facility, per the New Times report. Goodyear Police Department spokesperson Mayra Reeson confirmed the incident in an email and said there is no evidence the call was valid, calling it a hoax. Reeson said she was unaware of any other hoax calls of this kind in Goodyear.
Conflicting Accounts of What Happened at the Door
The footage, along with claims that the company had called ICE on its own workers, spread quickly online after the volunteer group People First Project posted the incident footage. Those early posts included inaccurate claims that the business had summoned ICE itself, an assertion the report does not support. Internet sleuths have since identified two people in Quetico Logistics management as possible matches for the individuals filmed blocking the door and yelling at workers, though the New Times report notes those identifications remain unconfirmed…