Las Vegas ice cream truck mistaken for ICE vehicle: ‘I’m an ice cream man, that’s it’

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A viral TikTok warned of a covert ICE immigration agent van. It was an ice-cream truck

The video falsely claimed the van, packed with 70 ice-cream flavours, was an undercover vehicle for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

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Las Vegas ice-cream truck mistaken for ICE vehicle as deportation raids unfold

Billy Settlemyers, the owner of Las Vegas Ice Cream Patrol, found himself in the middle of a firestorm last week after an ill-advised social-media user blasted out images of his truck and suggested it was part of an elaborate plot to round up illegal migrants.

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Las Vegas ice cream van owner says trucks are being mistaken for ICE

‘Please be on the lookout for ‘ice cream’ trucks… they ever play music to get people to come outside… this is actually so sick’, wrote a woman in a now-deleted TikTok video

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Las Vegas ice cream truck mistaken for ICE vehicle: 'I'm an ice cream man, that's it'

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Social media posts mistakenly identified a law enforcement-themed Las Vegas ice cream truck as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle, leading its owner to fear for his safety. “ICE and Border Patrol don't use trucks from 1985,” Billy Settlemyers, the owner of Las Vegas Ice Cream Patrol, said Monday. Last week, a person posted a video of Settlemyers’ black-and-white truck driving into a neighborhood with the caption: …

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A Las Vegas ice cream truck decorated like a police car was accused of being an undercover ICE truck

Julie Gomina on iStockBilly Settlemeyers, a former mechanic in Las Vegas, Nevada, retired from wrenching and kept himself busy after buying an old box truck and turning it into an ice cream shop on wheels. He decorated to look like a police cruiser. He called it, “Ice Cream Patrol,” and the truck has a convincing-looking “Las Vegas Ice Cream Patrol” badge at the top. It reads “Unit 702” on the side, so the untrained eye (or those who don’t know…

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LAS VEGAS-A simple ice cream truck, called “ICE Cream Patrol,” has generated fear among the Las Vegas Valley community, for its similarity to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Service vehicles. Images of this truck moving through the streets of Las Vegas have been trending on social media in recent days, in relation to recent raids under the administration of President Donald Trump. Truck owner William Settlemeyers commented that the labeling emu…