OLD ORCHARD BEACH, ME — A Jamaican national in the U.S. illegally was sworn in as a police officer in Maine after presenting a Massachusetts driver’s license — the latest scandal made possible by blue-state policies that reward lawbreaking and punish accountability.

Jon-Luke Evans should’ve been on a plane home in October 2023. Instead, he was patrolling the streets of a small coastal town — with a badge, a uniform, and access to firearms.

How? He applied with a Massachusetts ID. He passed E-Verify. And the Democratic-controlled state that prides itself on being a “sanctuary” for illegal aliens handed him the paperwork to pull it off.

According to ICE, Evans attempted to purchase a gun for police duty, triggering a federal alert and his arrest last week in Biddeford, Maine — just miles from where he’d been working in uniform.

“Jon-Luke Evans not only broke U.S. immigration law, but he also illegally attempted to purchase a firearm,” said Patricia Hyde, acting ICE Boston field office director. “That a police department would hire an illegal alien and arm him would be comical if it weren’t so tragic.”

Evans provided town officials with a Massachusetts driver’s license, Jamaican passport and birth certificate, Social Security card, and proof of college credits. The town submitted his I-9 to the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify system, which green-lit the application in May. He was soon sworn in and working shifts.

Now the town is locked in a blame war with DHS, which blasted local officials for relying on E-Verify and called the hiring of an illegal alien cop a violation of federal law and basic common sense.

“No illegal alien should ever be provided a firearm or serve in law enforcement,” DHS said.

But local officials say they followed the law — and that it’s the federal government, and by extension states like Massachusetts, that opened the door.

“If we shouldn’t trust the word of the federal computer system that verifies documents and employment eligibility,” said Town Manager Diana Asanza, “what good is that system?”

Massachusetts, under Gov. Maura Healey and a Democrat supermajority, now allows illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses — a policy critics say blurs the line between legal and illegal status and invites exactly this kind of abuse.

And in this case, it didn’t just lead to someone voting or working illegally — it led to an armed, uniformed officer enforcing the law while breaking it.

Evans is now in ICE custody, and the feds say the investigation is ongoing.