A meals financial institution employee shot from behind by an ICE agent final month pleaded not responsible on Tuesday to assault on a federal officer utilizing a lethal or harmful weapon.
Carlos Jimenez, a father of three, was indicted by a federal grand jury final week after prosecutors accused him of attempting to “reverse” his automobile right into a Border Patrol agent conducting an early-morning Oct. 30 immigration cease close to the Ontario cellular dwelling park the place he lives.
An accompanying ICE agent, in accordance with a criticism filed shortly after the incident, had ordered him to depart and pulled out a gun and pepper spray.
Attorneys representing Jimenez stated he was simply attempting to depart. Attorneys Cynthia Santiago and Robert Simon stated Jimenez had stopped to warn the brokers {that a} group of school-age kids would quickly be coming. Jimenez reversed as a result of he was afraid, they contend, after which was unnecessarily shot behind his proper shoulder, the place a bullet stays lodged.
Jimenez — who has been free on a $10,000 bond — appeared along with his proper hand in a sling at a federal courtroom in Riverside on Tuesday. His brothers and spouse, clasping arms, sat within the first row watching.
Decide Sheri Pym set a jury path for Jan. 12.
Neither he nor his public defender, Ayah Sarsour, would remark after, however within the hallways, he may very well be heard speaking to his household about how nervous he was in courtroom.
The Jimenez taking pictures was the second in slightly greater than per week final month as enforcement operations unfolded throughout the state.
In Los Angeles on Oct. 21, ICE brokers shot right into a automobile, hanging Carlitos Ricardo Parias within the elbow, and hitting a deputy marshal with what authorities stated was a ricocheted bullet. Prosecutors have accused Parias of attempting to ram brokers’ automobiles. He pleaded not responsible to assault costs final week.
Earlier this week, federal prosecutors in Chicago moved to drop costs in opposition to Marimar Martinez, who was shot a number of instances by a Border Patrol agent after she and Anthony Ruiz had been alleged to have used their automobile to strike and field in brokers.
