Illegal Alien and Wife Plead Guilty After Confrontation with ICE in Tempe

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Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand [Photo courtesy U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)]

An illegal alien, Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand, from Iran, and his wife, Linet Vartanniavartanians, a naturalized United States citizen, pleaded guilty this month after a confrontation in June with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The 41-year-old Eidivand pleaded guilty to Alien in Possession of Firearms and Ammunition. Vartanniavartanians pleaded guilty to Threats Against a Federal Law Enforcement Officer.

In his plea, Eidivand, who does not have the legal authority to be in the United States, admitted that, on or about June 21, 2025, in Tempe, Arizona, he possessed two firearms, which is prohibited for illegal aliens.

Vartanniavartanians admitted that, on the same date, when ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) came to her residence in Tempe, Arizona to contact her husband, she made threats intended to impede, intimidate, and interfere with the officers engaged in the performance of their official duties.

Vartanniavartanias made the following threats:

“I’m not letting anybody enter my home without my, you know, permission. So anybody that tries to invade my home, I’m going to shoot them. Like I said, I have a gun, and it’s loaded.”

“Anybody trying to enter my house is going to be shooted. I don’t allow anybody in my house, including ICE.”

When asked about the location of the gun, I responded “in my hand right now.”
“I go outside the backyard, and I’ll just shoot them in the head.”

Eidivand entered the U.S. in San Ysidro, California, in June 2012. In August 2013, an immigration judge granted him a voluntary departure, which allows an alien to leave the country without a formal ICE removal, but he never left. Eidivand will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

A conviction for Alien in Possession of Firearms and Ammunition carries a maximum term of 15 years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000.00, or both, and a term of supervised release of up to three years. The maximum term of probation is five years, including a minimum term of one year if probation is imposed.

A conviction for Threats Against a Federal Law Enforcement Officer carries a maximum term of 10 years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000.00, or both, and a term of supervised release of up to three years. The maximum term of probation is five years, including a minimum term of one year if probation is imposed.

Sentencing is scheduled for November 26, 2025, before United States District Judge David G. Campbell.

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4 Comments

  1. Dumb and Mrs Dumber,

    What other anti-American violence are they involved in or are planning by themselves or with others?

    Their actions speak louder than words.

  2. We have enough of our own US citizen criminals to deal with and we should not be allowing these Iranian hood-rats to add to our law enforcement workload. Send both of these “future Democrat voters” back to the shithole nation they came from!

    • What do you mean future? Most likely they are good democrat voters now. After they finish their jail sentences, deport both of them.

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