The ICE arrest of a police officer in Maine has sparked a days-long exchange of blame between the resort town's police department and DHS.

Old Orchard Beach police, who hired him as a summer employee, said federal officials cleared him to work in May.

The police officer arrested by immigration authorities in a Maine town was a trusted member of the force who is missed by his colleagues, officials said Wednesday, expressing frustration with the lack of information about the case from the federal government.