ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days

Carlitos Ricardo Parias, a Los Angeles-based journalist who documents crime stories for over 100,000 TikTok followers, has been detained by ICE for nearly 300 days after being shot by federal agents during an immigration raid in June 2025. He is being held at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California under poor conditions, including contaminated drinking water and an untreated gunshot wound, making his case one of the longest known detentions of a U.S. journalist in government custody. Federal authorities claim he is an undocumented immigrant who evaded arrest, but witness accounts and video evidence suggest the shooting was unprovoked and he received no medical care.