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Federal agents visit Rochester home and hotel over email to ICE official
Homeland Security Investigations agents contacted a Rochester man at his residence and later at an airport hotel roughly five months after he sent an email to then-acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. Agents told the man the message could constitute an illegal threat.
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Federal agents visited a Rochester, NY, residence to question a man about an email he sent five months earlier to then-acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. The agents said the message could amount to an illegal threat. The man was not at home when agents first arrived.
Agents locate recipient on vacation Agents later found the man at an airport hotel several hundred miles away. The second visit occurred while he was traveling. Agents delivered the same warning about the earlier email.
Background on the email The email was described by the recipient as critical of ICE operations. It was sent to the acting director at the time. No charges have been filed in connection with the message. >"Federal agents went to a Rochester man's home to warn him that an email he sent five months ago could be an illegal threat." — NPR, July 2026
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