ICE Arrests Man Deported Seven Times Who Ran Over and Dragged an Officer in Chicago Heights
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on November 12 that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Jose Juan Garnica-Naranjo, an illegal alien from Mexico, who intentionally struck an ICE officer with his vehicle in Chicago Heights, Illinois, sending the officer to the hospital.
DHS said that on November 10, ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Chicago pulled over Garnica-Naranjo during a targeted enforcement operation. His criminal history includes prior arrests for assault and domestic violence. When officers ordered him to shut off his engine, he refused to comply. As officers attempted to remove him from the vehicle, he sped away while an ICE officer was still partially inside the vehicle through the driver-side door. After he drove over a median, the officer was thrown from the vehicle before being struck as Garnica-Naranjo fled.
The officer was sent to the hospital with a leg injury but has since been released. ICE officers apprehended Garnica-Naranjo later the same day. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the man used his vehicle to assault an officer, that his prior criminal history includes assault and domestic violence, and that assaults against ICE officers have risen by more than 1,600%.
DHS said Garnica-Naranjo had previously been deported seven times, all in 2013, and then illegally re-entered the United States at an unknown date and location.
Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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