Thirty-seven-year-old Linet Vartanians is accused of threatening to shoot ICE agents in the head Saturday when they arrived outside her Tempe, Arizona, home.
The New York Post reported that Vartanians is the wife of Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand, a 40-year-old illegal immigrant from Iran.
The Post noted that Vartanians allegedly refused to allow ICE to enter their home and “told them to come back with a warrant before she called local cops on them.”
The agents left and were tipped off to a number of guns in the house. They returned the next day with a search warrant and found “a loaded gun on the kitchen counter and another on a nightstand.”
The Arizona Republic noted that Eidivand “was accused in U.S. District Court of possessing weapons while not lawfully being present in the United States, a felony.” Vartanians stands accused of making threats against federal officers.
The Republic referenced a recorded 911 call on which Vartanians allegedly made threats.
Vartanians and Eidivand will be back in court on July 9, 2025.
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