Immigration agents in Los Angeles arrested Iranian national Farzad “Tony” Toutouni late last month after years of the 55-year-old criminal illegal alien openly living a flashy, high-profile lifestyle as an Instagram influencer, complete with exotic cars, stacks of cash, private aircraft, and parties featuring nude women, and posting about it to more than one million followers.
According to the official ICE press release, Toutouni, who has also used the name Robert, first entered the United States legally in 1983.
An immigration judge ordered him removed in 1993, but he was not removed at that time.
A second removal order came in 1999, after which he was deported to Mexico.
Toutouni later admitted he re-entered the country illegally in 2011, near Saint Clair, Michigan, by crossing the river on an electric raft he purchased in Canada.
Once back inside the United States, he built the online persona of a self-made entrepreneur and “Pelvis Philanthropist,” posting relentlessly about a life of luxury while authorities say he continued a crime spree that began as early as 1989.
ICE detailed his numerous arrests for criminal threats, criminal conspiracy, and possession and sale of a controlled substance. He was sentenced to more than 16 months in prison for a fake check, grand theft of an access card, conspiracy to commit a crime, possession or alteration of access card equipment, forgery, kidnapping, robbery, and extortion.
