An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing DUI charges after his car hopped a curb and he drove into a tree line, according to bodycam footage and report obtained by the Sun-Times from Oak Brook police through Freedom of Information Act requests.
Guillermo Diaz-Torres — a 33-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico resident and ICE agent — was driving a 2025 KIA Telluride with an Illinois fleet plate and had his service weapon in the backseat when he was arrested Oct. 26, according to the report. He could face up to a year in jail for the charge, and is set to be arraigned Dec. 5 in DuPage County.
The Chicago Tribune first reported the story after obtaining bodycam footage of Diaz-Torres’ arrest.
A Westmont police officer first noticed Diaz-Torres sleeping in his car at the intersection of Midwest Road and 35th Street in Oak Brook and knocked on the vehicle to get his attention, according to the police report. Diaz-Torres then accelerated and drove into a tree line nearby.
Diaz-Torres smelled of alcohol, failed multiple field sobriety tests and had slow, slurred speech while swaying and having bloodshot, glassy eyes, per the description of an officer in the report obtained by the Sun-Times.
On bodycam footage obtained by the Sun-Times through FOIA, Diaz-Torres falls multiple times when asked to walk in a straight line, loses count of his steps and how long he holds up his foot in a later test. He later said “W” followed “R” in the alphabet when asked to recite it.
“Got off shift, I came here,” Diaz-Torres said to the Oak Brook police officer, noting he was on his way back to his hotel in Lombard, according to the report. “You guys have a checkpoint. This doesn’t look good.”
Diaz-Torres, his attorney Michael Baker and ICE didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Despite having crashed around 2 a.m., and Diaz-Torres being less than 10 miles from Broadview, he told the officer in the bodycam footage that he couldn’t account for what happened in the nearly 90-minute period after his shift ended and the crash. He later said he had been in Illinois for more than 45 days.
He told the officer he didn’t go anywhere after work and later refused a breathalyzer test, after which he was placed under arrest.
“I’m just trying to gather what happened here with a single-vehicle accident,” the Oak Brook officer said on the bodycam footage.
“I have no idea, sir,” Diaz-Torres tells police.
His supervisor Joel Canedo, another ICE employee, picked him up later that morning, according to the report. Diaz-Torres could have his driver’s license suspended for refusing the breathalyzer, according to court records.
Federal immigration authorities have repeatedly used drunk driving charges as grounds for deportation for people they have detained in the Chicago area.
The Department of Homeland Security dedicated “Operation Midway Blitz,” which has caused chaos throughout the city and suburbs, to Katie Abraham, one of two women killed in an Urbana drunken driving crash earlier this year, allegedly by a Guatemalan man who lacked legal status.