Accused of illegally towing government vehicle during immigration raid, arrested

[struggle4progress]

ByJory Rand KABC logo
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 2:26AM

... Federal immigration agents were sent scrambling when the tow truck operator took off with one of their vehicles as they were making the arrest last month.

Now, the tow truck driver -- identified by the DOJ as 33-year-old Bobby Nunez -- is potentially facing 10 years in federal prison after he was arrested on Tuesday and charged with theft of government property ...

https://abc7.com/post/federal-agents-arrest-man-accused-illegally-towing-government-vehicle-during-immigration-raid/17725552/

It sure looks to me like an ordinary case of a tow truck driver towing an illegally parked vehicle, when the folk who had parked had had jumped out with masks pulled over their faces and were too busy trying to grope some poor woman to notice their ride rolling away

[marble falls]

1. What's his go fund me account, I have my card ready.

[Deuxcents]

2. Someone has got to pay for the humiliation they earned by imitating a legal arrest

[Arazi]

3. Come on grand jury - do your thing!

I second the request for his go fund me page

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

9. Yup, Blondi is going for a record number of booted cases!

[LeftInTX]

4. Kinda crazy story

She's has a work permit (came from Colombia in 2022, presented herself to border agents, was given a type of parole) got a DUI in 2023, but she's a Tik-Tok influencer who goes around filming ICE agents?

Why would a non-citizen put themselves in that situation and make themselves so visible? Just having the DUI can ruin her status.

Was she targeted for filming ICE agents? Probably. But can she be deported? Well, yeah she has a DUI.

I hope she doesn't get deported, but geez? I've seen that before. Immigrants turned activist, but maybe activist isn't the best job, when ICE gestapo is running around when their status is questionable.

The tow trucker driver seemed to know what the agents were doing and tried to prevent them from getting out of their vehicle by blocking their door passenger door with his door. So, it appears the tow truck driver knew they were ICE agents. So, he was interfering with their work.

Now if their vehicles were unmarked and they were just illegally parked, I can see, but he was there on the scene and knew what was happening. And apparently exchanged words with ICE agents.

[intheflow]

5. And if he told them not to park there, but they did anyway,

he was well-within his rights to tow the vehicle.

[LeftInTX]

6. They were in a luxury parking garage. We don't have the right to tow police vehicles, even if they're on the street.

I don't believe he owns the garage.

[intheflow]

7. They weren't marked as police vehicles.

And also, they were blocking the egress to/from the parking garage. I think he had every right to tow the vehicle.

[LeftInTX]

8. They were in the process of making an arrest. He knew what they were doing.

Law enforcement has the right to use unmarked vehicles. They did have their flashers and they had overhead flasher bars.

During the officers’ struggle to arrest Martinez, Nunez approached Martinez’s vehicle and began pressing the passenger side door of her vehicle on an officer, who then threatened Nunez with arrest. After being told the officers were conducting a federal investigation, Nunez swore at the officers and told them “Something was going to happen” to them.

A second man then approached Martinez’s vehicle to interfere with the arrests. While officers addressed this man’s interference, Nunez got into his Dodge tow truck and towed one of the government vehicles that was boxing in Martinez’s vehicle. At the time of this interference, the government vehicle had its keys inside and a firearm locked in a safe inside it as well.

[intheflow]

10. So you support ICE.

Good to know.

[WarGamer]

11. Isn't the poster just stating the facts of the case?

[LeftInTX]

12. Yes

I was wondering where the vehicles were parked and the circumstances. So I googled.