Portland man sentenced to 30 months in prison for throwing rock at ICE officer during protest

A antheral who admitted to assaulting a national serviceman during protests extracurricular a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement installation successful Portland, Oregon, past twelvemonth was sentenced to 30 months successful national situation connected Thursday.

Robert Jacob Hoopes antecedently pleaded blameworthy to aggravated battle of a national worker with a unsafe weapon.

According to tribunal documents, Hoopes threw a stone during a June 2025 protestation that struck an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations serviceman successful the face, "causing important injury."

Prosecutors said the officer's coiled bled heavy and obstructed his vision. The serviceman besides required aesculapian attraction beyond basal archetypal aid.

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Law enforcement officers drawback a demonstrator extracurricular the U.S. Immigration and Customs gathering during a protestation successful Portland, Ore., connected June 14, 2025. (Jenny Kane/AP Photo)

"Today’s connection is wide — unit is not a protest," U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Scott Bradford said successful a statement. "When you transverse the enactment and battle a national officer, you volition beryllium prosecuted."

In summation to the situation sentence, Hoopes was ordered to service 3 years of supervised merchandise and wage much than $8,000 successful restitution.

As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, FBI investigators identified Hoopes utilizing facial designation technology.

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Anti-I.C.E. protesters face national agents extracurricular the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement gathering successful Portland, Ore., connected Oct. 18, 2025. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty)

According to charging documents, investigators submitted a photograph published by OregonLive.com into commercially disposable facial designation software.

Federal authorities said the bundle generated astir 30 imaginable matches from publically disposable databases.

Investigators past reviewed the results and identified a photograph connected a Reed College SmugMug leafage titled "Canyon Day April ’23." Prosecutors said a tattoo disposable connected the individual's forearm matched a tattoo seen connected the fishy during the June 14 protest.

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Federal agents clashed with anti-I.C.E. protesters extracurricular the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement gathering successful Portland, Oregon, connected Oct. 12, 2025. The protests followed erstwhile President Trump's menace to deploy the National Guard. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty)

Hoopes' father, Tom Hoopes, antecedently described his lad arsenic a "lifelong Quaker who is profoundly committed to pacifism" successful an interrogation with KATU.

While helium did not quality that his lad attended the protest, helium declined to sermon his circumstantial involvement.

"What his engagement was: I can’t talk to that, but helium is profoundly committed to justice," KATU quoted him arsenic saying.

The Justice Department has pursued cases against galore individuals accused of assaulting national officers during protests tied to President Donald Trump's migration policies.

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Brendan John Geier was arrested and charged aft allegedly assaulting national officers during a protestation extracurricular Newark’s Delaney Hall detention center, authorities said. (Acting AG Todd Blanche via X; Selcuk Acar/Anadolu)

More recently, clashes betwixt demonstrators and instrumentality enforcement extracurricular Delaney Hall, an migration detention halfway successful Newark, New Jersey, person resulted successful dozens of arrests.

Fox News Digital's Rachel Wolf and The Associated Press contributed to this report.