Farris also told police she was contemplating applying for a protection from stalking order, but had not yet done so. It is a shame, but the larger issue here is her safety,” said Pam Fine, a journalism professor at the University of Kansas. The indictment against Pleviak did not identify him as an ICE agent, and it had scant details of the nature of the charges against him. Two days after Wichita police interviewed Farris, Pleviak’s supervisor ordered him to immediately relinquish his government-issued iPhone according to the affidavit. Beach’s affidavit also cited a September email in which Pleviak allegedly admitted remotely deleting information from the phone.

Source: National Post January 23, 2018 23:40 UTC