SALEM, Ore — Salem police are investigating after federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents reported being blocked in by vehicles near Lancaster Drive Northeast on Friday morning, an incident that ended after agents deployed tear gas, authorities said.
Police said officers were dispatched at about 9:30 a.m. to the area of 1970 Lancaster Drive NE after ICE agents reported that roughly 30 people had surrounded their vehicles and prevented them from leaving.
Before Salem officers arrived, the reporting party said ICE agents had deployed tear gas, freed their vehicles and left the area…