Man accused of dressing as ICE agent at Miami Dade College Brazilian voting site

David Goodhue, Miami Herald on Oct 5, 2026

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MIAMI — A man was arrested Sunday after he dressed as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent while aggressively walking around a polling site for Brazil’s general election at Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said.

Danilo Silva, 46, was wearing an ICE hat, ICE jacket, sunglasses and a mask covering his face and “tactical-looking” boots as he walked between buildings where voting was taking place, according to his arrest report.

Uniformed sheriff’s deputies and plain-clothes detectives with the agency’s Homeland Security Bureau “saturated” the campus when they received reports about him, the report states. At one point a man confronted Silva and the two began arguing. That’s when detectives stepped in, according to the report.

Detectives asked Silva if he was an ICE agent, and he said he wasn’t. He said the ICE gear was a costume he bought on Amazon, according to the report. He was also defiant and told detectives he wasn’t breaking the law by dressing as a federal agent, the report states.

Silva told detectives he voted at the event earlier while wearing a Brazilian sports jersey. He then went to his car and changed into the ICE attire, according to the report. He said he did it “to see people’s reaction,” the report states.

Deputies cuffed Silva and placed him in the back of a patrol car. He became agitated and threatened one detective, telling him “he will regret making this decision,” the report states.

Silva then went from threatening the detective to attempting to bribe him, according to the report.

“I will get you paid if you let me go. I can show you right there on my phone,” Silva said, according to the report. “Please grab it and I will show you. We will pay you money, but you have to let me go first.”

Deputies booked Silva into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on charges of voter intimidation, conspiracy to commit bribery, unlawful use of law enforcement insignia and disorderly conduct. A judge had not set his bond on the voter intimidation charge as of Monday. His bond on the other charges was $2,650, according to jail records.

Information on his legal representation was not immediately available.