Thread: Illegal alien charged with assault on federal officer

Illegal immigrant charged with assault on federal officer

UNION-TRIBUNE
4:07 p.m. September 22, 2009

SAN DIEGO – An illegal immigrant accused of trying to run over a Border Patrol agent has been charged with assault on a federal law enforcement officer, according to federal court records.

Armando Terriquez Zarate, who was shot during the confrontation on Sept. 16, was also charged Monday with human smuggling, court records showed.

According to an FBI investigation, Zarate borrowed a pickup truck and drove to Monument Road in the Tijuana River Valley to pick up a man and a woman who paid about $3,000 each to be sneaked into the United States.

The pair set off a sensor at the border and agents detained the pair. Zarate sped toward a Border Patrol agent and the agent and his partner opened fire when Zarate refused orders to stop, the FBI said.

Zarate was chased to the nearby neighborhood of Nestor, where he was arrested and taken to a hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound.
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No wonder the border hospitals are going broke.