ICE raids Oklahoma home even though suspects had moved away

Theresa Braine, New York Daily News on Apr 30, 2025

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An Oklahoma woman claims she and her daughters were terrorized when 20 armed federal agents burst into her home in the dead of night with a search warrant — for people who did not live there.

Even while admitting the family who had moved in two weeks earlier were not who they were looking for, agents forced the woman and her minor daughters to stand outside in their underwear in the rain as they tore the place apart, the woman told KFOR-TV. They then made off with the family’s possessions — including laptops, phones and their life savings in cash — without leaving any contact information so they could retrieve their items, or giving them a timeline.

The family had just moved to the state from Maryland, and her husband was set to join them this weekend, said the woman, whom KFOR identified as Marisa. She and her three daughters were asleep when the agents, who had a warrant, burst in from the U.S. Marshals Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI. The names matched those of previous residents whose mail was still arriving at the house. Yet the agents were “very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” Marisa said. “They were treating us like criminals.”

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately return a request for comment by the Daily News, but stood by its raid in a statement to The Oklahoman while admitting “the previous residents were the intended targets.” The other agencies told the newspaper they were not directly involved.

In the end, the house was trashed, and everything the family owned had been seized as “evidence,” Marisa said. KFOR’s footage panned over broken glass, bent doorframes and items strewn throughout the house.

“Like, how do you just leave me like this?” Marisa asked. “Like an abandoned dog.”

As they left, one agent said to her, “I know it was a little rough this morning,” Marisa told KFOR, adding: “A little rough? You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life.”

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