WATCH: ICE officers heckled by raging American as Ben Leo joins dawn raid for wanted drug smuggler
Nov 20, 2025
Watch the moment Ben Leo witnesses ICE officers arrest eight illegal migrants in a Florida dawn raid, as part of a manhunt for a wanted drug smuggler.The GB News star joined the team of officers as they targeted a Guatemalan national, accused of cross-border cocaine trafficking.FULL STORY HERE.
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So it's four in the morning here in southwest Florida. Behind me now, the guys from ICE and the local sheriff's department here in Hendry County are getting ready for this raid
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All right, good morning, everybody. Today we're going after Guatemala National. His name is Alicio Tutchuk. He's wanted in El Salvador for drug trafficking
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The guy has been expelled twice from the United States under Title 42. Be safe out there. We already have a vehicle on site
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He's going to call out the radio or call on the radio whenever he sees anything
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Thank you for allowing us with you. It's, what, four in the morning now in southwest Florida
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Just tell us where we're going. Our plan is to, we have some intel on him
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We've done some investigation on him. Our plan is to try to locate him, bring him into custody
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remove him from our country and send him back to his authorities
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So that's his house across the road. Correct. And you're waiting for him to come out
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Are you going to hit him when he gets in his car? Yeah, we'll wait for him to come out
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So with the 984 Citrus, I guess, five vehicles. They're outside the whole room
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So there's units down the road, Alvin? Yes, sir. Down, down, down
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Hey you got anything coming talking quick that vehicle you following is not it It turning left at that stoplight you were at
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We're behind it right now. 10-4-4. So we've just pulled over the car on the roadside
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He just left his house down there, maybe a mile or two down the road
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ICE agents surrounding the car with their vehicles. They're asking him to roll down the window and present his details
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These guys are Americans. They're going to be released. The concern is the other guys who are confirmed illegals
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The main guy, though, that they're after, the Guatemalan guy, doesn't appear to be here right now
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but there are other teams down the road still active on his case
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This very operation this morning just proves the danger that ICE agents put themselves in
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It's foggy here on the side of the road. Very, very dangerous indeed
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It takes one vehicle to crash into the back of these cars here for something very tragic to happen
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So these guys are putting their health, their safety, their lives on the line each and every day to tackle this illegal migration problem
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Correct We still have eyes on another vehicle possibly with the target The target is possibly in there so we headed to that location So just a few miles down the road from that first stop we now have what potentially could be the target vehicle and the man we want the international cocaine smuggler
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This is the second stop in the attempt to find Tango. Unfortunately Tango is not here
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We found several of his family members, same last name, but ultimately we weren't able to find Tango
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today but we'll continue our pursuit of tango. If they have any crimes here in the US
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So that guy there shouting out his van saying leave the man alone, leave the man alone. That's their ignorance a lot of times they don't want to know. They just pick a side and
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without any type of information. We're going to head now to a third address and see if he's there. Police
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So the third and the final hit of the day, another arrest, and we have the cooperation of the local sheriff here
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the Hendry County Sheriff, all thanks to the 287G legislation, which allows multi-agency cooperation
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to ensure that illegal migrants are rounded up, detained and deported. So Alvin, we've been basically doxxed on the roadside
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This is what you guys face every day. Cars driving past, people filming on the roadside
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Correct. Every day, you know, we have civilians doing counterintelligence on us
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letting the public and the illegals know where we are It captioned filming their horrors That what you deal with every day Every day every day We try to do our jobs try to you know make the public safe and this is
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what we deal with. And that's why they wear masks. That's the primary reason we wear masks. We're
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identified every day and then people are supposed to go after our families, our homes, the officers
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So we don't do it by choice, we do it by necessity. We didn't get the cocaine smuggler we were after
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So you're still working on that. But you've got eight migrants, aliens arrested. Correct. Correct. Successful morning. Successful morning. And the day continues
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Sounds like we need something like this in the UK. Definitely. I think I think you can
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Let's return to Ben now, who is still in Florida. He's got some breaking news, a development on that story, Ben
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Yeah, everybody watching this now is going to think this is absolutely rigged, but it's not
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So the gentleman there, Alvin, who's the team leader down here in Fort Myers, just text me as that VT was playing
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He said, with reference to the Guatemalan cocaine chap, he said, target in custody
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We later located him at the same house we were at. I think he left before we got there or after we went after the other vehicle
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So eventually they got the guy. They got the cocaine smuggler from Guatemala who El Salvador won
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And he'll go through due process and probably be kicked out back to El Salvador
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