Texas woman hit with federal charges after threatening FBI agents with machete

A Houston pistillate who was changeable by FBI agents aft allegedly threatening them with a machete is facing national charges, the U.S. Attorney's Office successful the Southern District of Texas announced connected Friday.

Jennifer Jesselle Perez-Rodriguez, 28, was taken into custody and charged with assaulting a instrumentality enforcement serviceman successful transportation with the incidental connected April 17.

Agents were driving down Anderson Road successful unmarked cars erstwhile Perez-Rodriguez allegedly walked into the roadway holding a machete, according to a transgression complaint. The pistillate past began swinging the machete and moved towards 2 of the vehicles.

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Jennifer Jesselle Perez-Rodriguez, 28, was charged with assaulting a instrumentality enforcement officer. (iStock)

The agents activated a siren connected 1 of the cars arsenic Perez-Rodriguez started to tally towards them, the ailment alleges. One cause opened a car doorway and instructed her to driblet the machete, which she refused to do.

As Perez-Rodriguez failed to travel orders, the cause pulled retired his weapon and began shooting her until she was nary longer a threat, the ailment says. She was transported to a infirmary with wounds from the gunfire.

Perez-Rodriguez was taken into custody successful transportation with the April 17 incident. (Getty Images)

If convicted, Perez-Rodriguez faces up to 20 years successful national situation and a imaginable good of up to $250,000.

According to witnesses, Perez-Rodriguez had been brutally attacked by astatine slightest 4 radical earlier she went to drawback her machete and started searching for her attackers, astatine which constituent she encountered federal agents.

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If convicted, Perez-Rodriguez faces up to 20 years successful national situation and a imaginable good of up to $250,000. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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"I saw erstwhile the pistillate went wrong the store, and she supposedly had a container with a machete inside," 1 witnesser told Fox 26. "She came backmost outside, but they were nary longer there. So she went retired to the roadworthy with the machete."