Hate crime charges filed against men who allegedly posed as ICE agents in Orange County

Prosecutors charged two men who allegedly posed as ICE agents while targeting Hispanic residents with hate crimes.

Two men who allegedly posed as ICE agents while targeting Hispanic residents in thefts across in Orange County have been charged with hate crimes, prosecutors said Wednesday. Laurentiu Baceanu and Alexandru Vasile are accused of pretending to be U.S. immigration agents while allegedly stealing cash and debit cards from Hispanic residents who they believed were undocumented immigrants and feared being deported, the Orange County District Attorney said in a news release.

'Prosecutors alleged many of the suspects arrested in the crackdown managed to enter the U.S. through illegal border crossings.'Criminals with ties to organized Romanian crime are continuing to prey on the most vulnerable of victims here in Orange County and across the nation while using the porous southern border as a direct pipeline to enter the United States with the sole purpose of committing crimes,' O.C. DA Todd Spitzer said in the news release.

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