From the New York Post: The school district superintendent arrested by ICE this week lied about attending MIT and was the subject of two sex discrimination lawsuits, The Post has learned.
Snappy-dresser Ian Andre Roberts, 51, was fired by Des Moines Public Schools after it emerged he was working illegally and had been avoiding a deportation order.
Roberts spent over twenty years bouncing around the nation’s education system, holding top posts from coast-to-coast, but also proved controversial.
“He ruined our district for three years,” a former colleague in the state told The Post. “He was very smooth, affable, but the overarching feeling you got from him was smoke and mirrors, mystique.”
He is also rumored to have been caught having sex with a female coworker on school property at his previous role as a superintendent in rural Pennsylvania, a post he held from 2020 to 2023.
During the 2020-2023 period he was superintendent of Millcreek Township School, the New York Post wrote that the school district “was inundated by lawsuits — and forced to pay out over $400,000 in sex discrimination settlements — claiming Roberts promoted less qualified women over more deserving men.”
Originally from Guyana, Roberts’ employment authorization reportedly expired in 2020, and he had been issued a final order of deportation in 2024, but the Biden administration had not deported him.
ICE agents arrested him on September 26, after a wild chase in which he tried to flee in a school-owned vehicle, then ran into the bushes. Inside the vehicle, officers found a fixed-blade hunting knife, a loaded Glock 19 firearm, and $3,000 in cash.
On the same day of Roberts’ arrest, police obtained a warrant and searched him home. There they found three more weapons, according to a court document: a loaded 9mm pistol underneath the seat cushion of a living room chair, a loaded rifle in the master bedroom closet, and another rifle behind the headboard in the master bedroom.
The firearms found in Roberts’s house in Des Moines, in addition to the one found in his district-owned vehicle.
His wife, who lives in Texas, purchased the firearm found in the car. I have evidence another women Roberts was in a sexual relationship with gave him a gun. He would… pic.twitter.com/jX0gGpA86C
— Laura Powell (@LauraPowellEsq) October 2, 2025
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