An illegal alien has been indicted after attacking federal agents in Texas, the Department of Justice said.
Luis Gustavo Ramirez-Saucedo was originally charged by criminal complaint and ordered held pending further proceedings; on April 23, a grand jury in Laredo returned the indictment.
According to the criminal complaint, Ramirez-Saucedo was one of 20 subjects on March 29 entering the United States by illegally crossing the Rio Grande, triggering electronic sensors in the area.
Border Patrol (BP) agents went to the area and made contact with the suspect.
“At that time, he allegedly violently resisted three BP agents’ efforts to apprehend him, allegedly striking them and ignoring multiple commands to halt before finally being detained,” the department stated.
The agents were treated for injuries at a medical facility.
Ramirez-Saucedo was charged with knowingly and unlawfully assaulting and resisting federal officers in their official duties and faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted.
Ramirez-Saucedo is expected to appear before a judge in Laredo in the near future.
Illegal Alien Charged With Attempted Murder
An illegal alien in Maryland was arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder and other charges for an assassination-style shooting that left a man badly injured.
Darwin Reinaldy Cruz-Rosa, 20, and an unknown accomplice allegedly opened fire on another man in Olney, Maryland, reported WJLA.
The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital with a “through and through” gunshot wound that entered the victim’s lower neck and exited out his back. The victim told police officers that he had been at Five Guys and was walking to a townhouse along Bantry Way when a Hispanic male wearing all black clothing and a ski mask exited a car with tinted windows and told him, “Hey.”
When the victim turned around, he saw one of the suspects pointing a gun at him. Cruz-Rosa fired multiple rounds, hitting the victim once in the neck.
JUST IN: Former CASA In Action employee charged with attempted murder.
On Monday, 18yo Darwin Cruz-Rosa allegedly shot a man in the neck along Bantry Way in Olney, Md.
CASA tells me Cruz-Rosa worked as an election canvasser in 2018, but was terminated for “poor performance.” pic.twitter.com/Eu1VyBB5fT
— Kevin Lewis (@ABC7Kevin) April 19, 2019
The victim was able to run to the townhouse he’d been headed to, enter the house, and lock the door.
Bullets started to pierce the door and kitchen window and the two suspects tried to break into the house.
The suspects eventually fled and were caught about 4 miles away. Cruz-Rosa made several “inconsistent statements” about where he was headed and where he was coming from.
“Cruz-Rosa stated he was dropping off a girl and then declined further statements,” police wrote in court documents obtained by WJLA.
MORE: According to @ICEgov, Cruz-Rosa is “unlawfully present” in the U.S.
In Aug. 2008, a judge issued Cruz-Rosa a departure order, but ICE says the El Salvadoran native “failed to comply.”
Cruz-Rosa is also a charged in a Nov. 2018 assault/shooting case at the Wheaton Mall. pic.twitter.com/AaadSiGSga
— Kevin Lewis (@ABC7Kevin) April 19, 2019
Cruz-Rosa worked as an election canvasser for CASA de Maryland, a publicly funded agency that received $608,830 in taxpayer-funded community grants in fiscal year 2019 and provides assistance to immigrants even if they’re illegally in the country.
The organization claimed that Cruz-Rosa was fired after several weeks.
Another alleged criminal, 52-year-old Felix Silva-Zuniga, who allegedly filmed himself having sex with a 14-year-old human trafficking victim and used the video to blackmail the teenager, also had ties to CASA, having used its interpreter services in April 2011 during a consultation for an undisclosed medical condition. When arrested, he presented his CASA identification card.
