Iowa school superintendent arrested by
ICE, facing prior weapons charges, allegedly
found with loaded handgun
Fox News,
by
Louis Casiano
&
Bill Melugin
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
9/26/2025 5:38:21 PM
An Iowa school district superintendent living in the United States illegally who also faces weapons charges was arrested Friday, authorities said.
Ian Andre Roberts, who heads the Des Moines Public Schools—the largest school district in the state—was taken into custody on a fugitive warrant. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents pursued Roberts after he sped away, authorities said.
They later found his vehicle abandoned, and an Iowa State Patrol K-9 was called in to help search for him.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Californian 9/26/2025 5:49:49 PM (No. 2009480)
Oh my gosh! Proof Trump is racist and anti-education!
Lol
27 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/26/2025 5:51:10 PM (No. 2009481)
We had an illegal Kenyan as President for eight years. What’s wrong with a School District Superintendent?
71 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
mobyclik 9/26/2025 6:06:48 PM (No. 2009486)
DEI hire, First Class.
44 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 9/26/2025 6:12:35 PM (No. 2009487)
Aint diversity wonderful? Not one qualified white citizen. Nowhere in the country. All that was available was this criminal illegal alien.
58 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
volksford 9/26/2025 6:32:23 PM (No. 2009494)
All the woke school board are busy pating them selves on the back
42 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 9/26/2025 6:38:49 PM (No. 2009496)
He enters the country in 1999, was he already a Dr. (presume it's a PhD considering he ends up in education)?
He overstayed his visa.
Gets job after job (maybe those other places caught on to his status).
Des Moines, looking to be "diverse" chooses this person from a nationwide search?
What did his CV say that swayed them?
Now, has he been voting or is he registered to vote in any of those states he's lived it (remember, an old registration my still be on the rolls allowing someone to use it which is common particularly for the harvesters).
30 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 9/26/2025 6:43:50 PM (No. 2009497)
FTA, "Dr. Roberts has been a trusted partner, a dedicated advocate for equity...". It appears after an extensive nationwide search Des Moines Public Schools found the prefect DIE hire. Black, illegal, liar, ordered deported and wanted for felony passion of a firearm. Kinda shocked he hasn't been elected to the House as a Dem from a solid quota district.
50 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 9/26/2025 7:08:48 PM (No. 2009503)
‘'In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.'’
Mark Twain
48 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 9/26/2025 7:09:12 PM (No. 2009504)
November 4, 2024
J. Ann Selzer
"With a day to go before Election Day, a Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa poll conducted by renowned Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer showed Harris with a 47% to 44% advantage among likely voters over Trump, who scored solid victories in the Hawkeye State in 2016 and 2020 presidential races."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/poll-showing-harris-iowa-throws-monkey-wrench-election/story?id=115463596
Dawg Eeon
September 26, 2025
“ICE Des Moines today arrested Ian Andre Roberts, a criminal illegal alien from Guyana in possession of a loaded handgun, $3,000 in cash and a fixed blade hunting knife,” the agency said."
"Roberts has a prior criminal record in the US. He was charged with weapons possession on Feb. 5, 2020."
https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/us-news/des-moines-public-schools-superintendent-ian-roberts-detained-by-ice-iowa-school-board-confirms/
Your DEI/Woke Superintendent and Pollster
28 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Saryden 9/26/2025 7:22:14 PM (No. 2009508)
The school board members who hired this dangerous criminal should be outed and punished.. as the Dems always say "for the children."
41 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 9/26/2025 7:31:06 PM (No. 2009510)
September 26, 2025
"The Directors Council — a nonprofit group serving Des Moines’ Black community — identified Roberts as a board member and offered him their “full support” in a post on Facebook."
"Roberts “has been a trusted partner, a dedicated advocate for equity, and an unwavering supporter of families and youth in Polk County,” reads the post. “His contributions to both The Directors Council and the wider community are immeasurable, and we stand with him during this uncertain moment.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/us/ian-roberts-des-moines-superintendent-arrested-ice
Ghetto minds
22 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
greggojo 9/26/2025 7:54:00 PM (No. 2009514)
He was hired in 2023 after an "exhaustive nationwide search". But in 2020 his green card expired and he had been under deportation orders and had already had a weapons charge against him. What I find even more astonishing, is that when the officers attempter to arrest him he ran and was later found by the K9 officer in the brush. He hardly acted like a dignified educator with immigration problems. Also, his doctorate (likely an EdD) was from an online university. I mean, this guy was as phony as a $3 bill, and yet he was hired to oversee THIRTY THOUSAND students and they paid him $280,000 per year. Insanity.
45 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Safari Man 9/26/2025 8:03:37 PM (No. 2009516)
Another dark chapter for public education.
26 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Northcross 9/26/2025 8:19:56 PM (No. 2009520)
Do we need any more proof that public education is infested with ultra-liberal nut cases, not so much this guy, but those who hired him. Any school board member who supported this guy needs to be recalled by Monday morning.
33 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
konocti95 9/26/2025 9:05:13 PM (No. 2009528)
Here's an interview with the good doctor from a month ago regarding the upcoming school year.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ZDV6oVs4E
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 9/26/2025 10:20:37 PM (No. 2009542)
And these frauds claim that he was the "best possible candidate from a nationwide search".
What a total fraud. They were looking ONLY for a black guy, regardless of the level of fraud and incompetence that was there.
24 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/26/2025 10:53:34 PM (No. 2009553)
I am speechless. This is unbelievable. An illegal from Guyana and with a loaded weapon. Everyone in any leadership position in that district should be fired. My wish is that they should also be sent to Guyana with him.
18 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
bighambone 9/26/2025 11:41:30 PM (No. 2009570)
You can see how stupid much of the country is to hire a criminal illegal alien as a school superintendent in a large American city without doing any sort of effective or legitimate background checks.
22 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Grayraven 9/27/2025 3:41:00 AM (No. 2009590)
I looked up the team fielded by Guyana for the 2000 Games held in Sydney Australia using Wikipedia. Wikipedia listed 5 team members for the entire team. Ian Andre Roberts was not one of those people. Also there was nobody competing in the 800 from Guyana. Am I wrong here or is this another made up piece of nonsense by someone inflating their resume? This man was supposed to be vetted.
11 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/27/2025 7:20:11 AM (No. 2009612)
Not much difference between him and some of the American bred leftist supes out there. Do you wonder why so many superintendents don't last very long? The education system in America is rotten and full of rotten people. Cancel public education!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
janjan 9/27/2025 9:11:47 AM (No. 2009694)
They obviously never checked his immigration status or legal right to work here. Or didn’t care.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/27/2025 9:15:51 AM (No. 2009697)
No background check before hiring a school district superintendent? That's ridiculous and dangerous and it's how pedophiles get into public education.
10 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Kafka2 9/27/2025 10:23:27 AM (No. 2009720)
This is a strange case. He appears to have created a fictitious life history. As to his job performance, he seems to have done a good job. It appears that his main crimes were violating the terms of his F-1 student visa and attacking the ICE agent that stopped him. I wonder how the ICE knew there was a warrant for his arrest.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 9/27/2025 6:03:36 PM (No. 2009856)
And the school board says that they found him faster an exhaustive nationwide hunt for the best possible candidate.
An illegal alien with a warrant for evading deportation. It is impossible to invent fictional stories any more bizarre than what leftist actually do.
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