Law&Crime Sidebar - ‘ICE Agent’ Busted for DUI with His Kids in His Truck: Cops

Episode Date: October 26, 2025

An apparent ICE agent was busted for allegedly driving drunk with his kids in the car. Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber goes through body camera footage of Scott Thomas Deiseroth's tense roadside encounter with deputies in the Florida Keys, including his attempts to use his law enforcement status for special treatment and struggles through sobriety tests.PLEASE SUPPORT THE SHOW: Download the FREE Upside App at https://upside.app.link/sidebar to get an extra 25 cents back for every gallon on your first tank of gas.HOST:Jesse Weber: https://twitter.com/jessecordweberLAW&CRIME SIDEBAR PRODUCTION:YouTube Management - Bobby SzokeVideo Editing - Michael Deininger, Christina O'Shea, Alex Ciccarone, & Jay CruzScript Writing & Producing - Savannah Williamson & Juliana BattagliaGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of this Law and Crimes series ad-free right now. Join Wondry Plus in the Wondery app, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. I'm federal. Okay. I'm trying to get home. I got my boys with me. Who do you work for? DHS.

Do you have your ID with you? No, I don't. This is an unusual situation. You have deputies in the Florida Keys who stop a truck that they say was all over the road, and a father and his two sons were inside. So immediately concerned about the children's safety and the driver's level of intoxication, the deputies get him out of the truck

to do field sobriety tests. But based on body cam footage of the interaction, which we have and which we will play, it seems he would rather argue about whether he should get special treatment as an alleged fellow member of the thin blue line. Welcome to Sidebar, presented by Law and Crime.

I'm Jesse Webber. 42-year-old Scott Thomas DeSyreth was arrested in August for DUI and child endangerment after a higher up in the sheriff's department noticed him allegedly driving recklessly. And I will tell you, we got our hands on the footage to see how this all played out, and you will see for yourself. So this is around 3.30 p.m., August 13th, and DeSarith has pulled over on the shoulder of this long overpass. When Deputy Jonathan Lane approaches the truck window, that is when DeSerellis, brings up pretty quickly that he works for a U.S. government agency.

Hello. Can you roll on the back windows for me, too? Sorry, you got a real dark tin. Hello. Scott, where are you coming from? Miami down here to Mila Marada and then back. So you're coming from Miami to Isla Marada and then you're going back to Miami? Yeah, I live in Miami.

Okay. Okay. Do you know where you are right now? Yeah. Where are you? I've got the overpass over here, 18-mile stretch, overseas highway. Okay. Where did you do today? What'd you go? Do you go fish in? Did you go to a restaurant? You're about 100 miles off of where you think you are. Oh, no. You are. Who was the guy in the white shirt? That's the colonel.

Colonel, don't mean, I'm federal. Okay. I'm trying to get home. I got my boys with me. Who do you work for? DHS. Do you have your ID with you? No, I don't.

Okay. But if I called them, they'd verify that you're a department? Okay. You don't have any type of credentials or anything to say your DHS? Not on me, no. Okay. All right. my weapon with me if I'm...

Okay, but you don't have any weapons on you right now? No, I don't. Okay. So what I want to do, I want to talk to away from the kids. I'm going to ask you to step out of the car and we're going to walk back to the back of your car, okay? Are you serious right now? Yes, sir, I am. Now, here's the thing.

Court paperwork that was filed after his arrest confirmed that DeSareth works for ICE, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, that he's an Army veteran. He was reportedly honorably discharged at the rank of enlisted staff sergeant, by the way. And here's the thing. Based on the body cam footage from Deputy Lane, Deserath seems to be hoping, I think the argument would be, that this brotherhood of law enforcement may help him out of his jam. So you said you're coming from Miami, going to Isle Marada, and going back to Miami? What are you going to Isle Maraud for? Guys, seriously, are we really doing this right now?

I'm just asking you a question. You said you're going to Islamrata? What are you going to Isle Marado for? Lane. Yeah. Are we really doing this right now? Sir, I'm just asking you a simple question. You don't have to answer it if you don't want to.

But you said you're going to Isle Marada, so I'm just asking what you're going for. Guys. Zach, how much have you had to drink today? Four. For what? For drinks? Like water, alcohol, beer. What did you drink? Coolade? Now, obviously, this is a story that we wanted to bring to. And the reason that we can cover something like this is not only because of the amazing support that we get from all of you out there, but also from our incredible sponsor, Upside. This is the free app that gets you cash back on daily essentials, like gas, groceries, food. So I pump my gas, I can use Upside. I go out to lunch, I can use Upside. I get something from a convenience store, I can use Upside. And why wouldn't I want to get cash back when I do all these things, right? This is actual real cashback.

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I'm just asking what? You look like you're impaired. I smell alcohol coming from you. So I'm just asking how much you had to drink to make sure you're not too impaired to drive that vehicle. Okay. How about this, Scott? So, again, I think that you might be impaired. Your eyes are bloodshot, they're kind of glassy.

Are they really? Yes, sir, they are. Show me. I don't know how you want me to do that. Take a picture. Okay. We can do that in a minute. But the other reason why I think you're impaired is just the way you're walking, you're kind of stumbling a little bit. I'm not walking anywhere. Okay. And then also the way that you were seen driving, you're like kind of swerving and stuff. And then the colonel tried to pull you over and you didn't immediately stop. You stopped here on the bridge. You tried to stop. You had a safer spot a little bit back there. Okay. We're doing this. Okay. Okay. So again, I believe that you may be impaired by alcohol and or.

some type of chemical substance which may inhibit your ability to operate a motor vehicle safely. Someone asks, you voluntarily participate in standardized field sobriety exercises to dispel my belief you may be impaired. Are you willing to do those exercises? Yeah. You'll do them? Okay, so what I'll have you do? You can just sit on the bumper your car right there. You're a little bit taller. I just need to look at your eyes. Guys look. I'm SFST certified. Okay, so am I. I'm a drug recognition expert. You know what that is? Okay, anyway, so what I'm going to have you do,

if you can uncross your feet and just put them like side by side, perfect. And then your arms, if you could, just try to put them down by your side like that. Okay, so what I'm going to have you do is just keep your head straight, and you're just going to keep your head, like, aim straight at me, basically, and then I'm going to look at your eyes, okay? You understand? Yep. Are you diabetic?

No. Are you epileptic? No. Okay. Do you have any brain injuries? Let me just say about a veteran. Okay. Have you ever had a traumatic brain injury? Yes, I have. Okay. Does it affect your ability to operate a vehicle?

Guys, come on. Okay. Well, I'm just asking what your brain injuries. Does it affect you in your everyday life? No. Do you know what stagnus is? Onset of nisthagmus, yes. Okay. But do you know what nistagmus is?

Yes, I do. Okay. Do you have nistagmus? Guys, are we really doing this? Okay. Do you have any medical issues that I need to know about? Are you on blood thinners, painkillers? Lane.

Yep. Talk to me. I'm talking to you right now. Don't do this. I'm just talking to you, man. I'm just trying to get... It's right. It's all right.

Take any breath. No, it's not like this. If you haven't drank too much to not be able to operate a vehicle safely, then, you know... Blame. Yeah. Come on, guys. We are both enforcement. I'm just, I'm going through divorce.

Don't take my kids, man. I'm not taking your kids from me, man. I'm just making sure that you're safe to drive the car. Okay? Do you have any other medical issues that I need to know about? I don't know. Just any medical issues that might... That...

...low up around me. I've been shot at. Okay. Sorry, man, take a deep breath. Don't tell my kids. I'm not. You're all right. Take a deep breath. You're okay. I've been shot at.

People have tried to kill me. I just want to go home, guys. Come on, man. I got you, man. We've been, come on. We know what's all. We've been down this road before. The problem is, is that we're at this point right now. I understand that.

And you know that I have to do. what I have to do. I understand that, but my boys are everything. Okay. Where's their mom at? I don't know. Do they have anyone down here that would be able to take care of them? I'm not saying you're going with me, man, but you're all worried about this stuff.

I'm just trying to figure out, you know, if there's someone else around here that, you know, maybe they could come drive the car if you think maybe you drank too much to drive. Guys. No. No? They're my everything. Okay. medical problems that are going to affect your ability to follow my finger.

Okay, so again, what I'm going to have you do is just keep your head straight, and I'm just going to have you follow the tip of my finger with your eyes, and I'm just going to go side to side, and then I'm going to go up and down, and I'm going to do a circle around your head, and I'm going to tell you what I'm doing before I do it, okay? I'm not going to touch you or anything, but again, I just want you to follow my finger with your eyes and don't move your head. Do you understand? Yep. Okay, ready? Yep. So DeSyreth and Deputy Lane, they go through the eye test. And when it comes time for the walk and turn, that is when DeSareth still seems kind of resistant.

So Deputy Lane opens up. And this is when he reveals that he himself was arrested for DUI. Yeah, we double-checked this. We double-checked the records. And Lane was indeed arrested in 2023 when he was found sleeping in his car at a gas station while off duty. He had to go through the same field sobriety test as everyone else. His case on the Monroe County Court docket is marked confidential. so it's unclear what came of his arrest, but obviously he's still on the job, and again, he brings this up.

Okay. So the next thing that I'm going to have to do is the walk and turn. I'll probably do it right here. I don't know how easy this would be for you to do in flip-flops or if it'd be easier in your... Lane, I just want to get my kids down. I got you, man. I'll tell you a true story. I went through the same thing two years ago. You divorced?

No. I am. This. I'm going through a divorce right now. Look, man. You drank too much to drive a car. No. I haven't.

You did. Okay. Let me give my kids. You can't drive a car right now, man. Based on what I'm seeing so far, unless, you know, if you do good on this, maybe I'm wrong. Okay? That's why we're doing these so that you can dispel my belief that you're impaired. Okay?

Because right now, when I'm seeing the stumbling and stuff, I want to see if you can do this stuff. I'm not doing anything. I'm sitting right here. When you walked out of the truck at first, you kind of, it looked like you. Maybe I'm wrong, okay? But that's what this stuff is for so that we can dispel that belief that I have that you're impaired. Now, Deputy Elaine explains the instructions for the walk and turn exercise multiple times, but DeSareth doesn't appear to be having it.

Do you understand those instructions, sir? Yep. Okay. Could you get back in the starting position for me, please? Just left foot on the line and right foot in front. Oh, I got you, Lane. Okay. Give me a minute.

Okay. The deputy does give him a minute, but to Sarath's excuses, they're kind of adding up. Okay, man, it's either a yes or no. Just give me a minute, all right, deputy? I did give you a minute, sir, but we can't stand here for this long, okay? Lane. Yes, sir. I'm federal law enforcement.

I'm going through a divorce. My wife is trying to take my kids. I'm just... Give me a minute, all right? Okay. You know what it's like. You know what it's like to be law enforcement. Just give me a minute, alright?

Guys. Ugh. If we give you a minute, are you going to do the exercise? I will do it. Just... Okay. Like I said, I just don't like us standing here in the road. I don't either, but you don't want my kids in my life.

I got you. No, you don't. Do you have kids? No. Exactly. Do you have kids? No. Exactly. So you don't know what it's like. And things take kind of a strange turn when another deputy unseen tries to explain something to DeSyreth and DeSyreth notices his accent.

You know what? Call my supervisor. Hell good. Do you want to do the exercises or no? I'll do it. But you know what's homeboy doing down there? You know, guys, come on. Make sure we all sit here. We don't want to get hit.

We don't want you to get hit. That's all trying to do the exercise. Are you Haitian? That's not something to keep my wrist, buddy. My question was, are you Haitian? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter where he's from. Look, man, I really need you to do the exercise.

If you don't do it, then I'm going to say that you're refusing to do the exercise. I get it, you need a minute. I gave you a few minutes, okay, but... Let me talk to your supervisor. Not right now, sir. Yeah. That's not how this works. You can talk to him.

It is how it works because you guys are local. a local. Okay, that's not a statute or a law or a policy or anything that we have. He's the second from the top underneath the sheriff. Okay, he's the one that boards you over. Okay. If you want to talk to him, we can, but right now I'm in the middle of an investigation and you're not going to talk to my supervisor in the middle of my investigation. When I'm concluded with my investigation, whichever way that goes, whether it's you and your car driving away or are you in the back of my car in handcuffs. If you want to talk to my supervisor then, then by all means, you can. When I'm in the middle of an investigation, it's you and me. No one else. Okay? So this is the last chance I'm

going to give you. Okay. Do you want to do the walk and turn exercise? Yeah, I'll do it. Okay. So again, put your left foot on the line and then put your right foot in front touching heel to toe and your arm straight down by your side. Okay, I'm going to show you the instructions again real quick, just to refresh your memory, okay? So left foot on the line, right foot in front, touching heel to toe. Six, nine heel to toe steps. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.

Keep the front foot on the line. Take the back foot off the line, and you're going to take a series of small steps with the back foot to turn around, and then you're going to take nine heel to toe steps back down the line. Do you understand the instructions? I do. Okay.

I want to talk to your, sir. Again, sir, once we're done with the investigation, you are more than welcome to talk to. anyone that you would like. Okay, you may begin. Okay, now DeSerath doesn't really do well on this exercise. He holds his arms out to steady himself as he walks along the painted line, but still wobbles, stumbles his way through.

He continues to seemingly, arguably be belligerent and uncooperative, but the deputy does really a great job of trying to stay calm here. Okay, awesome. So for the next one, the one like stand, we can come over here just so we're not in the road anymore. Scott, can you walk over to me please? Do you want to do the one-leg stand exercise? Why are you f***ing, man? All right, so just take a couple steps forward, like right here? What it is first? Okay, well, in order for me to instruct you on how to do the exercise,

I need you to stand over here. Awesome. Thank you so much, Scott. When Deputy Lane questions DeSarith about where and what he was drinking before getting behind the wheel, he can't seem to get a straight answer. And eventually, that is when things reached the point where DeSarith is placed under arrest. It's all right, Scott. What did you do there?

I had three drinks. Okay. What did you get? I don't know. The bartender made it up. Was it like a cocktail, like a mixed drink or a beer? Yeah, it was a cocktail. Like whiskey, vodka, tequila, rum, gin.

I don't know. Okay. They don't know if it was like... And I have not drank in weeks. Did you eat anything today? Yeah. What'd you eat? I made the boys pancakes.

This morning? Dinosaur pancakes. And what else do we have? Okay, Scott, I need you to come back here with me, please. I'm not going to do this in front of your kids, man, but you got to come with me. I'm not going to do it if you can put your hands around it back. If you're going to pull away, then I'll do it in front of your kids. Okay.

Don't squeeze my hand. Let go. I'm not doing this. Guys, I am law enforcement. Okay. I was going to do this. away from your kids, man. You're going to pull away from me, then I'll do it in front of them.

I'm not pulling the way. I'm not moving. Just relax. What's spinning me right now? Well, sir, I'm doing me right now. Thanks, sir. Can be a welfare check 6-8101. Do you have anything in your pocket going to put me?

Mistake me anything like that? No. All right. What's what's going on? Playground. It's going to be a reference to a white female with president. Well, sir, I'm doing my job today. The RG.

Advised if Alio of Parson, you can't say, you guys. You guys. Try to keep your hands turn the way that I have this one, your left hand right now. Okay, I'll try to get this. Okay, sit. That's fine. Move back. And go on the left side.

Guys, lane. Why are you doing it? It's clear to the right. Yeah. You can go to my hood. Just right up against my hood, sir. Do you have anything on you that's going to hurt us? No, man.

Okay. So, Scott, unfortunately right now, you are under the, you are under arrest for driving under the influence, okay? Lane. Scott, I believe you're impaired. Guys, don't do this. I believe you're too impaired to operate motor vehicle safely, Scott. Deputy Lane reminds him that he knows exactly what DeSarath is going through,

that he knows this isn't something fun, but that it's best right now to just suck it up, push through. But DeSarith doesn't seem keen to be taking that advice. Lane, come on, man. This is going to f*** me, dude. Please don't do this to me. I got arrested for DUI two years ago. Lane, I get it.

Do you have kids? Own up to your mistakes, man. You're a grown adult. I cried my ass off too. Own up to it. You're going to sit in jail tonight. It's going to suck. Yeah.

You're going to say... It's going to suck, man. It's going to suck for me. It's going to suck for you too. It is what it is. Be a man. Suck it up. That's what everyone tells us.

I know. I get it. Whatever. If you're a cop, whatever. Yeah, I'm a fucking law enforcement, dude. Then stop talking and sit in the back of the car and stop. No. Let's go.

Stop this. We're going to take care of. No, I'm not going in there. Let me talk to your supervisor. Again, you can talk to him in a second. Nope, not going in there without my supervisor. Okay. Let's go to the other side.

Come on, man, don't pull against me. Let's go right. I'm not moving. Bro. Oh, I do this. Lane. Hey, I'm going to. Come on, put your feet in.

Stand up, come on. Stand up, put your feet in, then. No, put your feet in. Stop. Where am I kids? Stand up, put your feet in. What? Put your feet in.

Put your feet in. You don't want to make this force all right. Come on, let's go. You've got to sit in the car, man. You're going to jail for DUI, what you think is to me. If you don't cooperate, you go to jail for resistance. You don't want to make some worse. Come on, put your feet in, buddy.

All right, your kids will be fine. This will pass. Listen to me. No, sir. Not on the side of the right. Come on. Let's go, man. We got to sit down, Scott.

You guys. Thank you. Fuck you. Okay. Lane, you really fuck me, man. I didn't, man. I'm not the one that drank today and drove. Here's something interesting.

From the body cam footage, we learned that it was actually a colonel within the Monroe County Sheriff's Office who first spotted DeSarith's truck. And he tells Deputy Lane what he saw and what happened when he tried to get the man to pull over. In the two lane? Yeah, yeah. He's stradd in the middle. Southbound northbound lane and the two lane area. I do a U-turn on him, got a couple cars between me and him. I pass them, do not have lights and siren.

I catch up two or three cars, probably about a mile, half a mile before the bridge here. Right? He is all over the road, taking all lanes, taking all shoulders, obviously not paying attention. You've got people waving me by, yielding over, and I don't even have lights on at this point. Right? I hit the lights, hoping to get him stopped before we just. to get him stopped before we got on the bridge, followed him for probably 200 yards before Bayhon entrance right all the way to here before he stops. And obviously, when I went up to the car,

you smell the odor. He's all over the road. It's not paying attention. All right, sweet. Well, thank you very much, Colonel. It's not. Thank you. Appreciate it. Good case. Appreciate it. Like I say, unfortunately, you've got two little kids, but they're probably alive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, and I think I told you, I asked him where you go. He's got a man. He had, uh, he had vertical and his stagmus, which you only see above a point one five. He had a had onset at about 25 degrees. If I had to guess, he's about a 0.25. I would surprise.

Well, I said, when I told him you can't get to Miami going this way, he wanted to argue with you. Watch, if he blows and I'm right, I'm going to send you an email. Thank you, Colonel. Yes, sir. With DeSarith, now in the back of the police car, Deputy Lane then checks in on the two children in the backseat of the truck. He learns they are only seven and nine years old. So, look, your dad made a little bit of. of a mistake, okay? I'm guessing you guys probably know that because you were in the car with

him for the ride. Can you tell me, do you know where you guys went or anything? Or what your dad was doing today? Because I don't know what's wrong with him, but he, I think he's drunk. I don't know if he drank something or he what? I can't hear you. A resort. What resort were you at? You don't know? Do you know if he was, has he been okay today? Has he been acting weird? So what happens here? Well, neither the kids has their own cell phone. But the good news is, fortunately, one of them knows their mom's cell phone number. So Deputy Lane gets in touch with her. She's in Miami. She agrees to meet up at a substation to collect them. That's the good news.

We go back to the defendant here. In the meantime, the other officer on scene reports to Deputy Lane that DeSareth is out of control in the back seat. allegedly banging his head against the interior of the patrol car and demanding to speak to Lane. What, man? Lane. With this shit up front, then? No, dude. The way you're acting. No, because you're got to me...

Bro. You're trying to, like, destroy the sheriff's car right now. No, I'm not. Fucking cuff me up front if you're going to cuff me. Look, if you really still want to have your job after this, you need to stop this. Then cuff me up front. No. That's not our apology.

Our policy is that you're handcuffed in the back. There's no... They take me somewhere. I am. We're trying to work out how we're going to get your... And you're making it a lot more difficult because you're sitting back here acting like a child. Stop, man. Then put the air on. The air is on.

No, it's not. Well, every time I roll the window down and open up my door, what do you think happens to all the AC? I get some air. Exactly. I get some air. Okay, watch you. No. Stop banging on the windows.

If you want the AC to reach back to you... reach back to you? It doesn't. It will eventually. Lane. So you'd rather have the window down like this? Yeah, I will. Okay.

Fantastic. Lane. Talk to me. Dude, there's nothing to talk about. There is. There's not, man. We don't have anything to talk about after this. Yeah, we do, Lane.

Lane. Hey, um, so this is an ice agent out of Miami. He's DUI. He's pretty drunk. He's got two little kids in the back, seven and nine. The mom is going to start driving down from Miami. Marken said he would relay the kid north. I was going to see if you could help set up a relay with Marathon to relay this kid up north

and just like meet with the mom halfway. Deputy Lane takes DeSareth to this processing facility out in Key West and this allegedly drunk dad just seemingly seemingly continues to argue with him along the way, convinced that Deputy Lane can somehow get him out of this situation. And while the deputy doesn't let DeSerath off the hook, he does give him some tips about being locked up as a law enforcement officer. Scott, do you want to call your boss on your phone? Do you want to call your boss on your phone? If you make a phone call on the jail phone,

it records the conversation. So if you want, I have both your phones and your wallet. If you want, I can call your boss for you, like on the hood of my car and you can talk to him. Or you can get the phone number out of your phone inside the jail. But, again, any calls you make inside the jail that's recorded, so. I just don't want to make sure you don't say something dumb. Anyway, what will happen? we're going to go to the jail. We're going to go into the breath test room. There's the intoxicizer 8,000, the breath test instrument. We'll do two breath tests. And then after that,

I will turn you over to the jail staff. They are going to take the handcuffs off you, and they're going to sit you by yourself, since your law enforcement, and sell by yourself and the clothes you're wearing right now. And then after I'm done with my arrest report, I'm going to turn that into the jail, and then that's me officially turning custody of you over to the jail. The jail will then take your mugshot, fingerprint you, tattoos. They'll take pictures of tattoos. Actually, I'm not sure if they do that for misdemeanors, but they'll book you into the jail. Basically, you'll get your own cell by yourself. Scott, I swear to God, I really am doing everything that I can.

That's what I'm saying, the best thing, just the less talking as possible, the there you go. Now, according to Monroe County court records, DeSareth was originally charged with felony DUI and child endangerment in circuit court, but the charges were apparently downgraded and the case was moved to county court. So he faces charges right now that are listed as misdemeanor DUI and resisting an officer without violence. Many of the court documents themselves are more confidential in this case, but according to local reporter Gwen Velosa, who reviewed or apparently reviewed his arrest report, the Sarath's blood alcohol level came back as 0.17, that is more

than double the legal limit. One of the documents that wasn't sealed is a motion to lift pretrial conditions. In that motion, DeSareth's attorney laid out the steps the defendant has taken to essentially straighten himself out, and this includes apparently attending numerous AA meetings. As part of his pretrial release, DeSarith can't consume alcohol, has to submit to being tested, and the motion reads, quote, recently, we had the defendant volunteer to use a portable breath device three times per day to show that he's not drinking. The device is a sober-linked device. The September motion also gave an update on his employment.

Quote, the defendant is an ICE agent. ICE has not terminated him, but is expecting alcohol treatment. And, quote, ICE is monitoring the defendant. The defendant is on administrative duty. He's not presently carrying any firearms. It's unclear from the docket if the pretrial conditions ended up being modified or lifted or he got some sort of relief by the judge. Now, I will tell you that NBC Miami reached out to ICE, who released this statement,

in the days after DeSarith's arrest. Quote, as the matter is currently under investigation, it would be inappropriate to comment on the arrest. However, as public servants working for a law enforcement agency, every employee at ICE is held to the highest standard of conduct. Should an investigation determine they have not adhered to those standards, it will be addressed appropriately. And DeSareth is next to in court at the end of the month. And that's all we have for you right now here on Sidebar. Everybody, thank you so much for joining us. And as always, please subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you should get your podcast.

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