{"id":149387,"date":"2025-09-04T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/?p=149387"},"modified":"2025-09-04T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:00:21","slug":"dude-who-went-viral-for-towing-ice-vehicle-faces-10-years-in-federal-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/dude-who-went-viral-for-towing-ice-vehicle-faces-10-years-in-federal-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Dude who went viral for towing ICE vehicle faces 10 years in federal prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, September 4, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Los Angeles tow truck driver who apparently thought it would be hilarious to hook and tow an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicle engaged in an immigration raid is getting wrecked by karma.<\/p>\n<p>In a video that went viral on TikTok, Bobby Nunez pulls his tow truck up to an ICE SUV which had its lights flashing, keys in the ignition, and a locked firearm in the safe, and drove off laughing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-149389 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TowTruck-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"198\" \/>Nunez filmed the whole thing and posted it to TikTok for his followers.<\/p>\n<p>Revolver News noted: \u201cBut here\u2019s the thing about karma: it never misses. Just two days later, the feds were knocking on Bobby\u2019s front door. And Bobby\u2019s smug laugh track is now gone and has been replaced by the moans and groans in his holding cell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents tracked Nunez down easily, thanks to his viral video.<\/p>\n<p>Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli wrote in a post to X:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How it started vs. How it\u2019s going<\/p>\n<p>ARRESTED: Bobby Nunez is now under arrest for brazenly towing an ICE vehicle. He is charged with theft of government property.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently he thought it would be funny to interfere with our immigration enforcement operations. Now he can laugh\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6LbjCwdcBP\">pic.twitter.com\/6LbjCwdcBP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAttyEssayli\/status\/1962875213823275243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2025 Real World News A Los Angeles tow truck driver who apparently thought it would be hilarious to hook and tow an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicle engaged in an immigration raid is getting wrecked by karma. In a video that went viral on TikTok, Bobby Nunez pulls his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":149389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,16],"tags":[632],"class_list":["post-149387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-top-stories","category-u-s-politics","tag-dude-who-went-viral-for-towing-ice-vehicle-faces-10-years-in-federal-prison","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}