A U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent lost a pistol Friday morning in San Francisco, police said.
At 9:27 a.m. a San Francisco police officer at the Ingleside District Station took a call from the agent who said he lost his pistol at 6 a.m.
As of Saturday, further details about the incident remained sparse.
"A duty weapon belonging to a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was reported missing Friday morning in San Francisco," ICE spokesman James Schwab wrote in an email.
He continued: "The incident was properly reported through official federal channels and to local authorities. The matter is currently under investigation."
In the past year, a number of law enforcement officers have lost their weapons.
The gun that killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco in July 2015 was stolen from a vehicle of a U.S. Bureau of Land Management ranger.
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The University of California at Berkeley police chief had her gun, badge and official laptop stolen from her car on Aug. 21 at Point Isabel in Richmond.
A bill introduced in the state Senate last month would require everyone, including law enforcement officers, to store any handgun left in a vehicle in a locked trunk or a locked container out of sight.
