Overview

• Ian Roberts’ attorneys announced he is resigning and said a letter to the Des Moines school board would be sent Tuesday.
• ICE says Roberts, who has a final removal order and no work authorization, was arrested last week after allegedly attempting to evade officers and was found with a loaded handgun, a knife, and $3,000.
• He remains in federal custody at the Woodbury County Jail in Sioux City, according to the ICE detainee locator.
• The Iowa Board of Educational Examiners has revoked Roberts’ administrator license, and the school board moved him from paid to unpaid leave ahead of the resignation.
• The Justice Department has opened a civil-rights investigation into Des Moines Public Schools’ employment practices, while Roberts’ attorney filed a motion to stay and plans to seek reopening of his immigration case, citing a prior lawyer’s letter claiming the matter was previously “successfully resolved.”