Federal agent threatened to shoot and arrest ambulance driver at ICE facility, report says

m.foxreno.com · By Victor Park, KATU · 2025-10-15T05:59:37.000Z

by Victor Park,KATUTue, October 14, 2025 at 10:59 PMUpdated Thu, October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AMAn AMR ambulance leaves the Portland ICE facility on the evening of Oct. 5, 2025. (KATU)PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A report says federal agents threatened to shoot and arrest an ambulance driver outside the ICE facility in South Portland, as first reported by our news partners at Willamette Week.According to the dispatch audio KATU obtained from the night of Oct. 5, federal agents detained someone at the ICE facility.That person suffered a broken or dislocated collarbone, prompting federal agents to call 911.“Hi. It's operator 149. I'm calling with Federal Police Dispatch. I'm calling requesting EMS to 4310 Southwest Macadam for one of the detained subjects,” a federal police dispatcher told 911. “They believe he either has a ... let's see. It was a collarbone break or maybe a dislocation. He's reported to be a white male, 32 years old, and allergic to morphine.”Shortly after, video from a KATU photographer captured an AMR ambulance entering the ICE facility.ALSO READ: Court docs: ICE counter-protester punches woman in the face as she tries to leave protestAccording to two confidential "incident reports" from that ambulance crew, obtained by Willamette Week, federal agents stood directly in front of the ambulance in an effort to block it from leaving.The ambulance driver put the vehicle into park, causing it to lurch forward slightly, according to the reports, which also indicate that federal agents then threatened to shoot and arrest the driver.When the driver asked why, the report says an agent responded that the driver had attempted to hit him with the ambulance.The driver wrote in the report “that they were not only accusing me of such a thing, but crowding and cornering me in the seat, pointing and screaming at me, threatening to shoot and arrest me, and not allowing the ambulance to leave the scene. This was no longer a safe scene."ALSO READ: Arrest of local clarinet player outside Portland ICE facility raises concernThe reports say this all started when agents insisted on riding in the ambulance but, without an arrest report, AMR did not allow those agents to ride.According to the report, it took 20 minutes from when the ambulance arrived to when it left to go a hospital, with federal agents following it.KATU reached out to DHS and will update you if we get a response.