Updated July 9, 2026, 6:51 p.m. ETFlorida Highway Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested one man at a bakery in Lake Worth Beach.A crowd of about 45 people gathered to watch the arrest, which involved numerous officers and vehicles.Officers reportedly brought the man's children outside in an attempt to persuade him to exit the restaurant.(This story was updated to add new information.)More than 20 Florida Highway Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers filled two blocks of Lucerne Avenue in Lake Worth Beach on Thursday, July 9, when they descended on a bakery to detain a man.A group of about 45 people stood outside El Quetzal Panaderia Y Cafeteria at about 1:30 p.m., waiting to watch the detention as seven ICE vehicles and one FHP patrol cruiser parked outside the bakery El Quetzal, just west of the FEC railway tracks.Authorities did not immediately provide the man's name. A trooper at the scene who would not identify himself said the man had been deported but returned to the U.S. But Mariana Blanco, the director of operations at the Guatemalan-Maya Center, said he was the owner of the bakery and that he has a valid work permit and a driver's license.Blanco said the man was on his way to a doctor's appointment with his children when he saw ICE agents nearby. She said he turned back to protect his store, his workers and his clients.As he was walking in, FHP and ICE agents tried to open the door. The man shut it and locked it, so the agents considered him to be a fugitive, saying he was fleeing from law enforcement, Blanco said.The officers tried to persuade the man to come out of the restaurant, even bringing his children outside in an attempt to get him to surrender, said Lindsay McElroy, an organizer with the center, a nonprofit in Lake Worth Beach that works with immigrants from the Central American country.At that time, the Guatemalan-Maya Center received a call from one of the people inside the bakery saying the deputies had told the owner to come out in order for his children to be released. Blanco and McElroy questioned deputies about their right to hold the minors and shortly afterward, the children were released to a family member.The officers detained the man when he eventually walked out of the restaurant. They told him they would detain no one else inside if he surrendered, Blanco said.The man's two children and three of his family members went to the Guatemalan-Maya Center following the arrest, Blanco said.The El Quetzal bakery said in a prepared statement late on July 9 that the situation did not arise either because the man had a deportation order or was being sought by law enforcement. It said it began after the owner saw officers headed to the bakery and went inside to protect the workers, according to the statement"Afterward, the officer asked him to come out and if he did not, they would enter the premises," El Quetzal said in a post on social media."To prevent the situation from escalating — and above all to protect his employees — he decided to step outside and surrender voluntarily."The raid comes at a time when the Trump administration has made a priority of detaining immigrants in the U.S. without documentation. Upon taking office in January 2025, Trump vowed to make the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, targeting criminals.City Commissioner Christopher McVoy said he was in a city budget meeting when he heard about the arrest, but he did not know what crime the man committed. McVoy, a critic of Trump's actions against undocumented immigrants, joined the crowd of onlookers outside the bakery."Unless this person has really done something major criminal, which I highly doubt … this is a blight on our city, this kind of activity," McVoy said. "It is an unwarranted and ridiculous use of taxpayer money for not true criminal activity."Maya Washburn is a Trending News Reporter for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida-Network. Reach her at mwashburn@pbpost.com. Support local journalism: Subscribe today.Emmy Bailey is a journalist at The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.