ICE accuses Honduran alien of ramming law enforcement vehicle before agent shoots out tires

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said a Honduran transgression amerciable alien rammed a instrumentality enforcement conveyance during an apprehension effort successful New Jersey connected Tuesday, forcing an cause to sprout retired the suspect’s tires. 

Dramatic video shows the serviceman drafting his weapon during the tense roadside confrontation. The incidental unfolded successful Roxbury Township erstwhile ICE said fishy Jesus Fabian Lopez-Banegas tried to evade apprehension by crashing into a instrumentality enforcement conveyance and astir striking an officer. Roxbury Township is successful Morris County, astir 35 miles northwest of Newark.

Video shows an cause drafting his firearm astatine the clang scene, wherever a instrumentality enforcement conveyance and the suspect’s pickup motortruck beryllium nose-to-nose on a snowy roadside.

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Law enforcement vehicles are seen aft a collision during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement apprehension effort successful Roxbury Township, New Jersey. Authorities said the fishy rammed a instrumentality enforcement vehicle. (@kaylab_823 via Storyful)

The cause stands with his weapon trained connected the conveyance arsenic the fishy yet steps retired and raises his hands, backing distant from the officer.

"In an effort to evade arrest, Lopez-Banegas rammed into a instrumentality enforcement conveyance and weaponized his conveyance successful an effort to tally an serviceman over," a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.

"Following his training, the serviceman defensively utilized his firearm and changeable retired the tires of the conveyance to halt the threat. Thankfully, nary 1 was injured. Officers arrested Banegas and took him into ICE custody."

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement cause stands with his firearm drawn aft a conveyance collision during an apprehension effort successful Roxbury Township, New Jersey. (@kaylab_823 via Storyful)

Lopez-Banegas’ transgression past includes cause trafficking charges, cause possession and driving nether the influence, DHS said. In 2021, a justice issued him an bid of removal.

Acting New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said her bureau is investigating the incident.

"We are actively investigating an incidental involving ICE ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) successful which a firearm was discharged successful Roxbury Township earlier today. There are nary known injuries," Davenport said.

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A fishy exits a pickup motortruck and raises his hands aft authorities said helium rammed a instrumentality enforcement conveyance during an ICE apprehension effort successful Roxbury Township, New Jersey. (@kaylab_823 via Storyful)

"Local instrumentality enforcement secured the country with the practice of the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office and Morris County Sheriff’s Office, and the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability is conducting an autarkic investigation," Davenport added. "We person besides been successful connection with federal, state, county, and section instrumentality enforcement partners."

The incidental comes arsenic the Department of Homeland Security said officers are facing a 3,200% summation successful conveyance attacks and a much than 1,300% summation successful assaults against them arsenic they effort to apprehension transgression amerciable aliens.