OLD ORCHARD BEACH (WGME) -- The police chief in Old Orchard Beach is speaking out and firing back at the federal government after one of the town's police officers was arrested by ICE. Jon Luke Evans was a recently hired summer reserve police officer in Old Orchard Beach.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Old Orchard Beach Police Department reserve Officer Jon Luke Evans, of Jamaica, on July 25.

Old Orchard Beach police, who hired him as a summer employee, said federal officials cleared him to work in May.