Arizona
Man pleads guilty to assaulting 2 Arizona Border Patrol agents in 2022
(Fb Picture/US Border Patrol, Tucson Sector)
(Fb Picture/US Border Patrol, Tucson Sector)
PHOENIX — A Mexican citizen pleaded responsible final week to the assault of two Border Patrol brokers in Arizona final yr, authorities stated.
Miguel Angel Acatzihua-Temoxtle, 26, faces as much as 20 years in jail for assaulting a federal officer leading to an damage and assaulting an officer with a lethal weapon throughout an incident on Could 31, 2022, the USA Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Arizona stated in a press launch.
Acatzihua-Temoxtle tried evading regulation enforcement when he and several other migrants have been discovered by Border Patrol brokers close to Newfield, south of San Miguel, federal prosecutors stated.
Acatzihua-Temoxtle fled up the aspect of a wash and kicked a number of massive boulders towards the border patrol brokers in an try and sluggish them down, authorities stated.
After Acatzihua-Temoxtle was caught, he bodily assaulted two of the brokers and tried to strangle one in all them along with his personal lanyard.
Investigation of the case was carried out by Border Patrol.