India, May 12 -- A GoFundMe has been launched for Carlos Lool, the owner and chef of a popular South Los Angeles restaurant who has been taken into ICE custody. Lool is now facing deportation.

Jenna Lawrence, Lool's business partner and girlfriend, said that ICE agents followed them while picking up supplies for a catering event over the weekend, per ABC7.

"They yanked him out of the car. They had him on the floor. They yanked me back and pulled out their guns and then they took him," she recalled.

Lool has a criminal conviction from Connecticut dating back about 30 years. He has served time for the crime. Lawrence claimed that the investigation began after a former employee reported the restaurant to authorities, claiming there was a ...