A New York Police Department sergeant has been charged with posing as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field director and ordering a victim and their family turn themselves in at an ICE location.

At an arraignment on Tuesday at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Atickul Islam, 29, pleaded not guilty to a single charge of personation of a federal officer and was released on an unsecured, $25,000 recognizance bond.

Defense attorney John Arlia, who appeared for Islam, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Taryn Merkel that the NYPD suspended his client with pay and seized his badge and service weapon.

Arlia said that Islam is “absolutely adamant about fighting these charges.”

According to court papers, Islam, who also uses the alias “John W. Anderson,” allegedly

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