Seattle PD Is Renting Cars For ICE

The Seattle Police Department rented cars that were used by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement task force earlier this year. SPD won't say what the cars were used for.

Invoices obtained by HardPressed show that SPD rented cars from Hertz in January and March to be used as part of a Homeland Security Investigations task force. (HSI is a subcomponent of ICE, which operates under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security.) After renting the cars, SPD submitted an invoice for reimbursement to DHS.

The Hertz invoices are made out to a fake entity named "BANGOR SOLUTIONS" with the same address as SPD headquarters on 5th Ave in downtown Seattle. Both Hertz invoices were for a monthly rental term.

"We cannot provide any details about this because we aren’t the agency conducting the investigation(s)," SPD Public Affairs Sergeant Patrick Michaud wrote to HardPressed. ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Apart from killing Americans, kidnapping people off the street, abducting more than 500 Americans, disappearing people, trampling constitutional rights, kidnapping people to third countries, operating concentration camps, and removing women's organs through forced medical procedures, WIRED has also reported that "ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements."

In Seattle, HSI agents monitored a Crimethinc event earlier this year according to WIRED. Numerous SPD officers work directly with HSI. In October, and November, the Department of Justice touted arrests stemming from Homeland Security Task Force investigations.

Update 11/13/26 - SPD has been using the fake entity named "Bangor Solutions" to rent cars from Hertz since at least 2020 according to records obtained by HardPressed. The "PO Box" of "Bangor Solutions" is the address of SPD's fiscal office.