ICE Arrests 13 at Pennsylvania Licensing Center After Tip-Off

Overview

• ICE agents, responding to public calls to local police, detained 13 non-citizens at the West Kittanning Driver’s Licensing Center in Armstrong County.
• Homeland Security said those arrested include nationals from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan, and the case remains under investigation.
• Armstrong County Sheriff Frank Pitzer reported a chaotic scene with people running off and vehicles left in the street, and one person may face charges for resisting arrest and assault.
• PennDOT said it did not coordinate with ICE and attributed the large crowd to medical form updates for non-domiciled commercial license holders during a federal pause on issuing new non-domiciled CDLs.
• Pitzer criticized the number of agents on site as too small for the crowd size, while PennDOT noted it verifies legal presence through DHS’s SAVE database, underscoring state–federal friction over enforcement at public licensing sites.