A 21-year-old male illegal alien from Mexico will served a little over a year for assaulting a female Border Patrol agent.
Adbiel Martinez-Barrera, of Guerrero, Mexico, was sentenced last week to 13 months and 1 day in prison after pleading guilty to Assault of a Federal Officer and Improper Entry by an Alien on September 6, 2023.
According to the Department of Justice, on May 5, 2023, a United States Border Patrol agent responded to a call from a Border Patrol camera operator who had spotted two suspected undocumented non-citizens in Douglas. The agent went to the area and located the two subjects, a male and a female, hiding in the brush. The agent was in the process of arresting the female when the male, Martinez-Barrera, who was bigger and heavier than the agent, mounted the agent from behind causing them both to fall to the ground. Martinez-Barrera tried to suffocate the agent by placing his hand over her mouth and nose, restricting her ability to breathe. Martinez-Barrera finally released the agent and fled the area but was later apprehended by other agents who arrived to assist.
Martinez-Barrera had illegally crossed into the United States earlier that night.
United States District Judge Scott H. Rash presided.