Inset: Latrance Battle (Bay County Sheriff’s Office). Background: Deputies arrest Battle for allegedly posing as an ICE officer (Bay County Sheriff’s Office).
Outfitted with a shirt that said “ICE” and equipped with a walkie-talkie she allegedly used for fake conversations with other agents, a Florida woman is accused of posing as a federal agent and kidnapping the wife of her ex-boyfriend.
Officers arrested 52-year-old Latrance Battle on charges of robbery by sudden snatching, kidnapping and impersonating a law enforcement officer, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.
Deputies responded April 10 to the Bridge Plaza Apartments in Panama City Beach where they found the victim who was “shaking and appeared to be in fear,” according to a probable cause arrest affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime. The victim told deputies she was at her job at the Days Inn in Panama City that day when a woman she did not know — later identified as Battle — wearing a black jacket, pants and hat with a white face mask and sunglasses walked inside.
The woman unzipped her jacket and showed a shirt with ICE emblazoned across the chest, the affidavit said. She also allegedly held a card that said “Sheriff’s Office.”
