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The Douglas Enterprise Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Makes Arrest at Local Restaurant by Rob McDearmid DOUGLAS — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, which is a newly formed division created under the Department of Homeland Security, sent two plain-clothes agents to Coffee County on Tuesday, May 1 to arrest a female who was wanted in connection with expired immigration documents, according to Captain Scott Harper of the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), who was asked to accompany the agents. Harper says the arrest was made at lunchtime on Tuesday at a Douglas restaurant. With the assistance of Harper, the female was located and arrested by federal agents and transported out of Coffee County to an unknown location where she remains detained. Several eyewitnesses, who were at the restaurant at the time of the arrest, have told The Enterprise that the female arrested was Paula Yarberry. Created in March 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the largest investigative branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). T he agency was created after 9/11, by combining the law enforcement arms of the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the former U.S. Customs Service, to more effectively enforce our immigration and customs laws and to protect the United States against terrorist attacks. ICE does this by targeting illegal immigrants: the people, money, and materials that support terrorism and other criminal activities. ICE is a key component of the DHS “layered defense” approach to protecting the nation. The ICE organization is composed of four law enforcement divisions and several support divisions. These divisions of ICE combine to form a new investigative approach with new resources to provide unparalleled investigation, interdiction and security services to the public and our law enforcement partners in the federal and local sectors.
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