The town’s police chief, Elise Chard, said recent public remarks Homeland Security officials criticizing her department “appears to be an attempt to shift the blame onto a hard-working local law enforcement agency that has done its job.

ICE arrested Jon Luke Evans, a summer reserve officer with the Old Orchard Beach Police Department who is from Jamaica, when he tried to purchase a firearm.

The chief of police in a resort town in Maine has called for an investigation into the arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of one of its officers. The chief says the officer