Malunda Destino had stopped at a gas station in Scarborough last week when several ICE agents approached his car, according to a friend who said she later spoke to him from jail.
The friend, Choisie Nyemba, said Destino told her the agents knocked on his car window and told him, in no uncertain terms, to step out of the car.
"Come out or we gonna break the window," was what the agents told Destino, according to Nyemba.
Nyemba said when she and other friends learned of Destino's arrest, they scrambled to locate him, even going to the ICE office in Scarborough, only to find he'd already be taken out of state.
"They were like 'Oh, no, he's not here anymore. They moved him to Massachusetts,'" Nyemba said.
Nyemba said she first met Destino in 2022, when he was living in a shelter in Portla