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Inset: Latrance Battle (Bay County Sheriff’s Office). Background: Deputies apprehension Battle for allegedly posing arsenic an ICE serviceman (Bay County Sheriff’s Office).
Outfitted with a garment that said “ICE” and equipped with a walkie-talkie she allegedly utilized for fake conversations with different agents, a Florida pistillate is accused of posing arsenic a national cause and kidnapping the woman of her ex-boyfriend.
Officers arrested 52-year-old Latrance Battle connected charges of robbery by abrupt snatching, kidnapping and impersonating a instrumentality enforcement officer, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said successful a Facebook post.
Deputies responded April 10 to the Bridge Plaza Apartments successful Panama City Beach wherever they recovered the unfortunate who was “shaking and appeared to beryllium successful fear,” according to a probable origin apprehension affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime. The unfortunate told deputies she was astatine her occupation astatine the Days Inn successful Panama City that time erstwhile a pistillate she did not cognize — aboriginal identified arsenic Battle — wearing a achromatic jacket, pants and chapeau with a achromatic look disguise and sunglasses walked inside.
The pistillate unzipped her overgarment and showed a garment with ICE emblazoned crossed the chest, the affidavit said. She besides allegedly held a paper that said “Sheriff’s Office.”
Unsure of what was happening, the unfortunate told her brag she had to spell with the pistillate she perceived arsenic a instrumentality enforcement officer. Battle allegedly walked the unfortunate to a car, got successful the driver’s seat, and ordered the unfortunate to get successful the backmost seat. After the unfortunate complied, Battle past began to drive, telling the unfortunate that she was being taken to the sheriff’s office.
The victim, meanwhile, pulled retired her telephone and said she wanted to telephone her lawyer, but Battle “reached successful the backmost spot and forcibly snatched [the victim’s] telephone from her hands, depriving her of her iPhone 11,” the affidavit said. Battle allegedly advised the unfortunate that she “could person her 1 telephone call” erstwhile they got to the sheriff’s office.
The unfortunate told constabulary that astatine this point, she believed that Battle was “an ICE instrumentality enforcement agent,” successful portion due to the fact that she “had a handheld vigor and was talking connected it to who [the victim] presume was different ‘ICE’ agents,” the affidavit said. But the unfortunate grew suspicious aft Battle drove past a determination wherever the unfortunate knew a sheriff’s bureau was located. She reportedly asked Battle “if determination was a Sheriff’s Office connected the formation and [Battle] confirmed determination was,” the affidavit said. During this time, however, Battle “kept talking atrocious astir [the victim’s] hubby and however [the victim] present has to endure the consequences of her husband’s actions.”
They soon arrived astatine an flat analyzable wherever Battle had allegedly told the unfortunate ICE agents would beryllium waiting for them. After parking, Battle allegedly “instructed [the victim] to get retired of the car and spell to country 108,” according to the affidavit. But aft Battle allegedly ran to the flat and, according to the victim, made “a batch of sound similar she was moving worldly astir oregon talking to someone,” the unfortunate “used this accidental to leave” and ran to a antheral sitting successful the parking batch and asked him for help, explaining that Battle had taken her phone.
At that point, Battle allegedly returned to her car and appeared to leave, but past returned to the parking lot, astatine which constituent the antheral the unfortunate asked for assistance confronted Battle himself, asking her wherefore she took the victim’s phone.
“She knows what she did,” Battle allegedly replied. The antheral past fto the unfortunate enactment wrong his flat until instrumentality enforcement arrived. While she waited, the unfortunate called her husband, who seemingly said that from the victim’s description, the would-be ICE cause “sounded similar his ex-girlfriend.”
Her hubby had an injunction against Battle “for issues they person had successful the past,” according to the affidavit, with the astir caller incidental taking spot astir 2 years agone erstwhile Battle “showed up to his spot of concern and attacked him.”
Officers went to the flat and confirmed Battle lived there, but a neighbour said she wasn’t home, the affidavit said.
Deputies arrested Battle arsenic she was connected her mode to Alabama, cops said. She was connected probation for aggravated battle with intent to perpetrate a felony. Battle remains successful the Bay County Jail without bond.
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