{"id":155457,"date":"2026-01-29T21:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155457\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:17:07","slug":"off-duty-agents-being-mistaken-for-ice-confronted-in-lynwood-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155457\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty agents, being mistaken for ICE, confronted in Lynwood \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies had to step in to disperse a crowd outside a Lynwood restaurant after the group confronted off-duty federal agents Wednesday evening, the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department (LASD) told NBC4 Investigates.<\/p>\n<p>The LASD officials responded to a Korean restaurant at around 6 p.m. after receiving a call about the off-duty TSA agents being surrounded by a large crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The agents told deputies that they were eating dinner inside a Korean restaurant when they were confronted by people, who thought the federal officials were from Immigrant and Customs Enforcement, the sheriff&#8217;s department said.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived, they saw about 20 people outside the restaurant, yelling the agents go home. <\/p>\n<p>After the TSA agents left the area safely, the deputies were able to disperse the crown without any issue within 30 minutes or so, the sheriff&#8217;s department added.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear why the crowd through the off-duty agents work for ICE. <\/p>\n<p>No one was injured or arrested from the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies had to step in to disperse a crowd outside a Lynwood restaurant after the group confronted off-duty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,21775],"class_list":{"0":"post-155457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-lynwood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}