Federal agents arrested Francisco Longoria at his home around 4 a.m. with a warrant, alleging he assaulted federal officers during an Aug. 16 altercation in San Bernardino when masked agents smashed his driver's-side window and shot at his car as he drove away. A judge dismissed the assault charges in Riverside court for lack of evidence, and immigration authorities detained Longoria immediately after the dismissal. Advocates said the felony arrest served to transfer him to ICE. The Department of Homeland Security said CBP assisted in the arrest, identified Longoria as undocumented, and defended CBP and ICE enforcement actions.
A man whom federal immigration agents shot at during a standoff in San Bernardino earlier this month was detained at a Riverside courthouse Thursday afternoon, Aug. 28, according to immigration rights advocates. Authorities arrested Francisco Longoria at his home around 4 a.m. with a warrant, claiming he had assaulted federal officers during the Aug. 16 altercation when masked agents smashed Longoria's driver's side window and shot at his car as he drove away, said Tamara Marquez, communications director with the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice.
When Longoria appeared in court around 2 p.m., Marquez said a judge dismissed the case, arguing there wasn't evidence for the assault charges. After the case was dismissed, she said immigration authorities detained Longoria. We think that was the whole point of this arrest, Marquez said. They knew they weren't going to get this felony charge, but that was their way to hand him over to ICE.
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