Federal agents were spotted in the area of Uline, 2105 South Lakeside Drive in Waukegan, making an arrest as multiple immigration-related arrests were reported on Wednesday morning in Waukegan. | Photo: Promociones Noticias Y Más At least three immigration-related arrests have been reported so far on Wednesday in the Waukegan area as federal agents returned to Lake County, with one person being arrested at a Uline warehouse. The first arrest occurred around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the area of Belvidere Road and Powell Avenue in Waukegan. The second arrest occurred around 11:15 a.m. at Uline, 2105 South Lakeside Drive in Waukegan, and involved a man being detained and taken away in a black SUV with no markings. Federal agents were spotted in the area of Catrachos Restaurant, 330 South Green Bay Road in Waukegan, as multiple immigration-related arrests were reported on Wednesday morning in Waukegan. | Photo: Nancy Alvarado Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents were seen searching the man, who was handcuffed, before transporting him. Uline is a distributor of shipping, industrial and packaging materials to businesses throughout North America. The company has two warehouses in Waukegan that are across the street from each other on Lakeside Drive. It is unclear whether the man arrested was an employee of the business or not. Federal agents were spotted in the area of Catrachos Restaurant, 330 South Green Bay Road in Waukegan, as multiple immigration-related arrests were reported on Wednesday morning in Waukegan. | Photo: Nancy Alvarado The third arrest occurred around 10:30 a.m. in the area of Catrachos Restaurant, 330 South Green Bay Road in Waukegan. Lake and McHenry County Scanner was told that the arrests were immigration-related and at least one of the detainees was immediately transported to the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview. Last month, federal agents were spotted in Lake Bluff making a possible immigration arrest, according to a local organization, a rare occurrence months after Operation Midway Blitz ended. The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) said its Lake County Rapid Response Team reported an “apparent [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] ICE abduction” in Lake Bluff around 11:30 a.m. on April 7. The arrest occurred in the 500 block of Moffet Road, near Center Avenue. At least four federal agents were present and two of them had masks, ICIRR said. Federal DHS agents make an arrest in the 500 block of Moffet Road in Lake Bluff on April 7 as a non-profit organization said it was an immigration arrest, which local officials could not confirm. | Screengrabs / Promociones Noticias Y Más “Remember: You have the right to film police activity, the right to remain silent, the right to speak to an attorney, and the right to refuse to sign anything,” the ICIRR said. A video reviewed by Lake and McHenry County Scanner captured the encounter, which showed a man being arrested by agents. The man could be heard telling them he does not speak English as they asked him if he had any weapons on him. One of the agents could be heard referring to the man’s “paperwork.” Lake Bluff Chief of Police Matthew Smizinski told Lake and McHenry County Scanner that his department received a report of an individual taken into custody in Lake Bluff by agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “Lake Bluff Police officers were not present at the time. The agents had not communicated with us the reason for taking the individual into custody,” Smizinski said. DHS has a multitude of agencies under its umbrella, including ICE and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). While ICE focuses on immigration matters, HSI investigates a variety of federal crimes such as child exploitation, narcotics smuggling, cybercrime and financial crime. DHS previously said there were several thousand arrests during Operation Midway Blitz, part of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown, in the Chicago area last year. It started in September and wound down in November. Post navigation