{"id":446731,"date":"2026-08-29T01:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446731\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T01:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:44:13","slug":"ice-officers-gun-discovered-in-san-francisco-airport-restroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446731\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE officer\u2019s gun discovered in San Francisco Airport restroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer\u2019s gun was found unattended in a men\u2019s restroom past the security checkpoint at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on July 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unattended firearm was discovered by a flight attendant, who reported it to airport security; security then closed the bathroom and called 911.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The big picture: San Francisco police arrived within minutes and were present when the ICE officer returned to retrieve the forgotten gun; it remains unclear how long the weapon was left unattended.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for potential follow-up action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State of play: The airport\u2019s involvement was limited due to sanctuary city policies and lack of information about ICE operations on site.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Gorb was arrested at SFO by ICE in a separate, widely publicized incident; a public records request about her arrest revealed the gun discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Since March, three ICE-related arrests have occurred at SFO, with public scrutiny and outcry following some of the incidents, according to airport officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer\u2019s gun was found unattended in a men\u2019s restroom past the security&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-446731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446731","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=446731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}