Two Mexican nationals pleaded accountable on Thursday to assaulting a Border Patrol agent in Texas, the U.S. Lawyer’s Place of work mentioned.
Consistent with the U.S. Lawyer’s Place of work, District of New Mexico, Jose Maria Reyes-Fuentes, 23, and his brother Juventino Darinel Reyes-Fuentes, 29, each Mexican nationals, had struck a Border Patrol Agent from the Santa Teresa Patrol Station who tried to arrest them on Aug. 20, 2023.
Juventino Darinel and Jose Maria will stay in custody pending sentencing, which has no longer been scheduled.
They resist 8 years in jail.
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Jose Maria Reyes-Fuentes, 23, and his brother Juventino Darinel Reyes-Fuentes, 29, each Mexican nationals, had struck a Border Patrol Agent from the Santa Teresa Patrol Station who tried to arrest them on Aug. 20, 2023. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP by the use of Getty Pictures)
Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Lawyer for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Particular Agent in Price of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Albuquerque Box Place of work, mentioned the altercation took place when a Border Patrol agent started pursuing a gaggle of 5 to seven migrants who had been driving on an all-terrain automobile.
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“After a short lived seek, the agent situated Juventino Darinel hiding in a bush. The agent pulled Juventino Darniel out of the bush and started to handcuff him,” the Lawyer’s Place of work mentioned. “After the agent had positioned the primary handcuff on, however earlier than the agent had finished securing him, Juventino Darinel started to withstand the agent. Right through the following battle, Juventino Darinel shouted, at which period Jose Maria rose up roughly 20 yards away and ran against the agent with a stick.”
Different brokers had been in a position to proceed to trace the ATV, in the end finding it on the backside of a mesa. Juventino Darinel and Jose Maria had been noticed through a Border Patrol helicopter and had been therefore arrested. (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP by the use of Getty Pictures)
“The agent disengaged from Juventino Darinel, drew his accountability weapon, and commanded Jose Maria to prevent in Spanish. Juventino Darinel then tackled the agent and climbed on most sensible of him. Whilst he was once at the floor, Jose Maria made touch with the agent all the way through the altercation. The agent felt Juventino Darinel achieve for his weapon and commanded him to prevent in Spanish once more. The agent then fired his weapon at Juventino Darniel’s leg. The firearm malfunctioned and the agent misplaced regulate of the weapon.”
The 2 then disengaged from the agent and drove into the barren region.
The Santa Teresa Patrol Station is situated simply west of El Paso, Texas, which is instantly around the U.S.-Mexico border from Ciudad Juárez. (HERIKA MARTINEZ/AFP by the use of Getty Pictures)
Different brokers had been in a position to proceed to trace the ATV, in the end finding it on the backside of a mesa. Juventino Darinel and Jose Maria had been noticed through a Border Patrol helicopter and had been therefore arrested.
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The Las Cruces Resident Company of the Federal Bureau of Investigation regarded into this example. The U.S. Border Patrol additionally assisted.
Assistant U.S. Lawyer Matthew Ramirez is prosecuting the case.
The Santa Teresa Patrol Station is situated simply west of El Paso, Texas, which is instantly around the U.S.-Mexico border from Ciudad Juárez.
