Illegal immigrant indicted in assault on ICE agents in Texas

An amerciable migrant has been indicted for an battle connected national agents successful Texas past month.

Jerson Lopez-Sanchez, 28, a national of Honduras, was indicted and charged with 3 counts of assaulting national migration agents, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced connected Thursday. The DOJ said that Lopez-Sanchez was successful the U.S. illegally.

On Dec. 1, 2025, national migration agents attempted to behaviour a postulation halt connected a conveyance owned by Lopez-Sanchez that contained astatine slightest 5 occupants erstwhile the Honduran nationalist allegedly enactment his conveyance successful reverse and injured an cause lasting down it, according to the DOJ. 

The indictment, which was filed connected Jan. 14, included images of the conveyance successful question, which was allegedly a Chevrolet Silverado. The conveyance was allegedly "loaded with dense instrumentality and ladders," according to the indictment.

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Jerson Lopez-Sanchez, an amerciable migrant from Honduras, was indicted for allegedly assaulting national agents. (FBI)

The maneuver supposedly gave Lopez-Sanchez capable country to thrust astir the different instrumentality enforcement vehicles successful an evident effort to flee, the DOJ said. The section noted that national agents were successful 3 abstracted vehicles and "all were wearing intelligibly marked instrumentality enforcement vests with constabulary identifying insignia arsenic good arsenic carrying national cause badges."

Law enforcement past began to prosecute Lopez-Sanchez with their bluish and reddish flashing lights engaged, according to the DOJ. 

With different instrumentality enforcement conveyance down him, Lopez-Sanchez allegedly "made nary attempts to use the brakes to his conveyance arsenic helium approached the 2 ICE agents successful a Chrysler van and crossed implicit other lanes of traffic," the indictment states. He past allegedly rammed into the van, causing "significant harm and fume to emergence from the hood" and deploying the vehicle’s airbags, according to the indictment.

Officers from Homeland Security and the FBI behaviour migration enforcement successful El Paso, Texas connected Thursday, January 30, 2025. (FBI)

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As the 3rd instrumentality enforcement conveyance continued to prosecute him, Lopez-Sanchez fled for astir 10 minutes earlier helium stopped the conveyance connected a median and each 5 occupants took disconnected connected foot, according to the DOJ.

"The mode successful which the Suspect Vehicle was used, by Jerson Lopez- Sanchez, was a deadly and unsafe limb susceptible of inflicting decease oregon bodily injury," the indictment states. The word "suspect vehicle" successful the indictment refers to the Chevrolet Silverado.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem slammed the onslaught connected ICE agents successful Minneapolis, Wednesday, arsenic an "act of home terrorism" during remarks astatine the confederate borderline successful Texas.  (Pool / Fox News)

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Lopez-Sanchez was identified arsenic the operator of the conveyance and remains at-large. The DOJ has encouraged anyone with accusation that could pb to the apprehension of Lopez-Sanchez to interaction the FBI, saying that those who interaction the bureau could "be eligible for a currency reward."

If convicted, Lopez-Sanchez faces up to 20 years successful national situation connected each number of the indictment.