Three Venezuelan illegals arrested after ICE officer 'ambushed and attacked' during traffic stop: Noem

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) serviceman warring for his beingness successful Minneapolis was allegedly ambushed with a shovel and broom grip by 3 amerciable immigrants during a postulation halt that rapidly spiraled into a ft chase, a convulsive conflict and gunfire, officials said.

Federal authorities accidental the chaotic country began Wednesday evening erstwhile agents conducted a targeted postulation halt for a Venezuelan amerciable migrant who was released into the U.S. nether erstwhile President Joe Biden.

What followed, they said, was an effort to evade apprehension that ended with 1 of the attackers changeable and each 3 successful custody.

On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified the amerciable immigrants arsenic Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, Alfredo Alejandro Ajorna and Gabriel Alejandro Hernandez-Ledezma, each Venezuelan nationals present successful ICE custody.

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ICE arrested 3 men who were allegedly progressive successful hitting an cause with a shovel during an enforcement operation. (DHS and Jeff Wheeler/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

DHS said national officers were attempting to apprehension Sosa-Celis successful Minneapolis erstwhile helium fled the country successful his vehicle, crashed into a parked car and ran connected foot.

The pursuing serviceman caught up with Sosa-Celis and tried to instrumentality him into custody, astatine which constituent helium began to defy and violently battle the officer.

As the 2 struggled connected the ground, 2 individuals emerged from a adjacent flat and began striking the serviceman with a snowfall shovel and a broom handle, DHS said. Sosa-Celis broke escaped and allegedly struck the serviceman arsenic good earlier the agent, fearing for his life, fired a antiaircraft changeable that struck Sosa-Celis successful the leg.

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Federal agents woody with agitators extracurricular the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, Jan. 14, successful Minneapolis, Minn. (Jamie Vera/Fox News)

Despite being wounded, Sosa-Celis and the different 2 men retreated into the flat and barricaded themselves inside.

ICE yet arrested each 3 suspects and took them into custody. The serviceman and Sosa-Celis were some hospitalized pursuing the confrontation.

"What we saw past nighttime successful Minneapolis was an attempted execution of national instrumentality enforcement," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said. "Our serviceman was ambushed and attacked by 3 individuals who bushed him with snowfall shovels and the handles of brooms. Fearing for his life, the serviceman fired a antiaircraft shot."

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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blasted section leadership, saying Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz indispensable "get their metropolis nether control." (Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images)

Noem blasted section leadership, saying Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Gov. Tim Walz indispensable "get their metropolis nether control" and accusing them of encouraging absorption against instrumentality enforcement, which she said is "putting the radical of Minnesota successful harm’s way."

DHS said Sosa-Celis is simply a transgression amerciable alien from Venezuela with anterior convictions who was released by Minnesota authorities earlier ICE could lodge a detainer.

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Ajorna and Hernandez-Ledezma besides entered the U.S. illegally and, according to DHS, failed to comply with migration proceedings.

All 3 stay successful ICE custody arsenic authorities reappraisal the case.