The U.S. immigration officer allegedly involved in the
fatal shooting of an immigrant in Maine told a judge in October that he was struggling to earn money because he had health issues and his driver’s license had been revoked.
Maine District Court Judge Amy Dieterich declared a month later that David Brouillette’s claims were not credible, denying his request to terminate his child support payments to a former wife. Instead, she concluded, Brouillette was “voluntarily underemployed.”
State records show that Brouillette’s license was not revoked at the time of his court testimony, an official who represents Maine’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles told The Washington Post. Brouillette separately indicated in a divorce settlement that he was employed by a local police department in 2019, but that agency said it has no record of him working there.
Brouillette’s credibility could come under scrutiny as authorities investigate the July 13 shooting death of
Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero during an immigration enforcement action in Biddeford, Maine.