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Assault on Border Patrol Agent Reduced To Misdemeanor
McALLEN -- A man from the Dominican Republic is expected to be sentenced by the end of the month following his guilty plea to assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent.According to documents released Monday afternoon, Llevry Ramon Herrera Sepulveda went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby on Friday afternoon and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of assaulting a border patrol agent. Ormsby ordered he remain in custody pending his sentencing hearing on July 31. Initially FBI agents had charged Herrera with one count felony assault of a federal officer on June 17, just two days after he had assaulted a border patrol agent identified in court records only as A.P., the criminal complaint shows. On the day of the assault, A.P spotted a group of persons who had crossed the river in an area south of Pharr and tried to apprehend a smaller group of six persons that splintered off and ran towards him, court records show. The border patrol agent tried to apprehend Herrera only to be met with a series of punches to the face that stunned the agent during the struggle where he tried to take down and arrest the Dominican man. During the fight, Herrera tried to take the agent's baton and other weapons but was only able to grab the radio and throw it into the brush. Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-10 |
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