Jon Luke Evans, a citizen of Jamaica, was arrested Friday in Biddeford, Maine after he tried to buy a gun. Old Orchard Beach police, who hired him as a summer employee, said federal officials cleared him to work in May.

ICE Boston reports that an illegal immigrant working as a police officer was arrested: ‘Comical if it weren’t so tragic’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials say a Jamaican national who has been in the United States without legal status for nearly two years has been working as a police officer in Maine.Jon Luke Evans was arrested Friday in Biddeford by officers with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston after he unlawfully attempted to purchase a gun,