ICE Arrests 13 After Tip on Truck Drivers at Pennsylvania DMV Sparks Chaotic Scene

Armstrong County Sheriff Frank Pitzer said multiple people fled federal agents and abandoned vehicles in the street during a chaotic scene outside a PennDOT licensing center near Kittanning, Pennsylvania, where more than a dozen illegal immigrants were ultimately arrested.

“It went even as far as people exiting their vehicles and abandoning them on the street,” Pitzer told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Authorities said the incident followed tips from the public reporting numerous suspected immigrant drivers — many operating tractor-trailers — outside the West Kittanning Driver’s Licensing Center.

One witness told Fox News Digital he contacted DHS and filmed the scene Friday morning after noticing an “unusual amount” of people gathered outside the facility.

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“That’s when police came, as well as ICE. Later in the afternoon when I got to the DMV, there was still ICE present and 13 illegals were arrested,” said Scherer, who also shared video from the DLC he took himself.

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DLC neighbor Gary Klingensmith also recounted the scene to KDKA, saying that when officers opened big-rig cab doors, “like 10 people came out” of some of them.

People began running through yards to escape ICE and there were “multiple” big rigs in the DLC lot, he said.

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The spokesperson said 13 illegal immigrants — including individuals from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan — were arrested, and one may also face additional charges of resisting arrest and assault on an officer.

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