Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were in La Salle on Thursday, police confirmed, but agents were investigating a sexual assault, not conducting an immigration enforcement roundup.

La Salle Police Chief Mike Smudzinski confirmed Friday that federal agents did visit the city, but he squelched rumors that agents were conducting random immigration checks. Instead, agents were looking for a man wanted for questioning in the sexual assault of a girl.

“It was not a random force roundup,” Smudzinski said. “They’ve been looking for this guy, and so are we.”

As of Friday, no one was in custody. Smudzinski said he would have been alerted because ICE is aware the individual is wanted for questioning on a local matter.

Meanwhile, reports of an ICE raid Thursday at a south-side Ottawa plant appear to have been unfounded.

A Shaw Media news reporter spoke to workers at the plant who dismissed reports of an ICE raid. Ottawa Police Chief Mike Cheatham said Friday that there was “no such activity involving ICE to report in Ottawa.”