Illegal immigrant given 72 months in assault on 2 Nogales border agents

Arizona Daily Star Arizona Daily Star
November 30, 2010 1:04 pm

An illegal immigrant from Sonora was sentenced to prison this week for assaulting two Border Patrol agents during a foot chase near Nogales in which he was shot.

Jaime Martinez-Garcia, 26, of Guaymas, was sentenced to 72 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David C. Bury, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A federal jury in Tucson convicted Martinez-Garcia in August of two counts of assaulting a federal officer and one count of Illegal re-entry after deportation.

The incident occurred in May 2009 in Portero Canyon three days after Martinez-Garcia was deported. He fought with one agent then struck a second agent with a large rock. Martinez-Garcia was shot as he was about hit the second agent with another rock, the release said.

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