Des Moines Public Schools superintendent in ICE custody after arrest

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a release Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts had weapons and cash at the time of his arrest. (Stock photo by Matt Gush/Getty Images)

The superintendent of Des Moines Public Schools was found with weapons and cash when detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers Friday morning, according to statements from ICE.

School district officials and politicians spoke out Friday about the arrest of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts, with some calling for empathy and others appalled that someone with “a prior weapons charge and an active deportation order” was placed in charge of Iowa’s largest school district…

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