This story has been updated.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested at least three people from Bloomington on Wednesday and took them to a jail in Kentucky, according to jail records.
WFIU/WTIU News confirmed that Neville Mayorga-Rosales of Nicaragua and Manuel Sente-Tevelan of Guatemala, 30, and Jose Gomez-Iras of Nicaragua, 23, were sent to the Hopkins County Jail.
Indiana court records show that Mayorga-Rosales received a traffic citation in January for driving while his license was suspended (not as a result of a conviction). In April, he paid his citation in full.
Sente-Tevelan faces pending charges in Monroe County for driving while intoxicated and one past conviction in Jackson County for driving under the influence. His booking record does not include the location of his arrest.
A search for federal court records turned up no results.
A friend of Mayorga-Rosales said he was a construction painter and co-worker of Sente-Tevelan, both undocumented immigrants. His mother, a legal resident, was driving him to Sente-Tevelan's home at Barclay Square when an immigration officer stopped the car. The friend said officers handcuffed and arrested the two men.
She added that Jose is a son of her friend and either has political asylum or is in the process of seeking it.
According to Hopkins County Jailer Mike Lewis, the jail has received several transports from ICE and has become an over 72-hour holding facility for detainees.
The jail has also taken Indiana prisoners from Evansville and Jasper.
Although many people from Bloomington reported sightings of ICE on social media, the only other confirmed arrest took place Wednesday outside a Monroe County courtroom.
The office of Bloomington Mayor Kerry Thomson released a statement Friday saying that the city hasn't been briefed by federal agencies about the individuals involved or the scope of ICE operations.
