A League City man, Donald Doolittle, 58, is facing a felony charge for posing as an ICE officer to extort money from Houston massage therapist Rita Dumont Mayans. After a payment dispute last Thursday, he showed her an ID marked 'ICE' and demanded $500, warning “she would be taken away and would never see her family or children again,” according to KHOU.
Doolittle, formerly the safety director at Gateway Community Church in Webster, allegedly sent Mayans text messages instructing her to delete their conversation. The situation was reported to Houston police the next day when Mayans recounted the incident at a luncheon.
Donald Doolittle was arrested for allegedly impersonating an ICE officer to extort money from a Houston massage therapist. He denied being at the massage parlor, saying he was at work, but surveillance video showed he was there. Gateway Community Church said Doolittle had resigned and was no longer part of the staff, stating, "We want to make it unequivocally clear that the actions Mr. Doolittle are accused of do not reflect the values of Gateway Community Church," as reported by ABC News. His bond was set at $10,000, and neither he nor his lawyers have made public comments about the charges.
