A TikTok influencer who used her platform to film ICE agents in Los Angeles and report on their whereabouts live-streamed her own arrest after feds busted on charges that she was in the country illegally.
Colombian national Tatiana Martinez, 24, was nabbed while she was parked at her apartment building in downtown LA on Aug. 15.
Her lawyer, Carlos Jurado, said his client was targeted for using her massive social media reach of more than 47,000 followers to report ICE operations.
“The reason she didn’t come out is, these are, these are masked men, and they said they had a warrant. She just wanted them to display it, ‘Show me the warrant,’ and they never displayed anything,” said Jurado.
“We believe, at this point, based on things that have been said to her, is that, because she was out filming ICE activities, she was targeted,” Jurado said.
But law enforcement sources told The Post that Martinez crossed the southern border illegally in 2022 and was promptly released into the country.
She was later arrested and convicted for a DUI, triggering her arrest by the feds, ICE said.
“This influencer drove under the influence — and got convicted for it in Los Angeles,” ICE said in an X post following the arrest.
Martinez passed out while she was being collared and was transported to a hospital, sources and Jurado said.
She was later taken to a federal detention center in Calexico near the Mexican border, according to Jurado.
“I’ve gone out there to visit her. It’s about a three-and-a-half, four-hour drive there and back. So I went there to visit her. She was really happy to just see someone,” Jurado said.
“I can tell you that I could still see bruises on her body from the arrest.”
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