Feds Arrest Anti-ICE Activists for Alleged Attacks on Agents in California

Pre-Dawn Raid and Arrests

• ⚡ Fox News exclusively captured a pre-dawn raid in Camarillo, California, leading to the arrest of an alleged anti-ICE activist, Eay Curo.
• 🎯 Curo is accused of smashing windows of immigration agents' vehicles during an ICE raid on a Southern California pot farm earlier this summer.
• 🔍 HSI arrested Curo in a dark alleyway, believing him to be part of an anti-ICE activist group that intentionally blocked and then ambushed federal agents' cars.
• ⚠️ At least four vehicles were damaged, and a federal contractor was injured by flying glass and a rock during the July incident.

Federal Charges and Broader Sweep

• ⚖️ Curo is expected to be federally charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer.
• 🚔 This arrest is part of a larger sweep across Southern California targeting individuals involved in alleged violence against law enforcement during summer immigration raids.
• 🏃 A female target with an arrest warrant narrowly escaped, and is believed to be named a fugitive.

US Attorney's Statement on Protests and Violence

• 🗣️ The Acting US Attorney for the Central District of California, Billy, stated that 97 individuals have been charged to date with assault or impeding federal agents.
• ✊ While Americans have a right to peacefully protest, engaging in violence or impeding federal agents through assault, doxing, or obstruction is not constitutionally protected.
• 🚫 VC Defensa, an organization managing a rapid response network to impede federal agents, is implicated in the July 10th incident in Ventura County.
• 💥 Two VC Defensa members are charged for conspiring to impede and injure federal law enforcement officers by blocking vehicles and ambushing them with rocks.

Downtown Los Angeles Incidents

• 🔥 In a separate incident on June 8th in downtown Los Angeles, agitators used protests as a cover to throw rocks, bottles, and other objects at officers, injuring several and vandalizing property.
• 🚗 Nine defendants charged in this incident were filmed throwing objects, including burning debris, from an overpass onto CHP officers and their vehicles.
• 🚨 One CHP vehicle was set ablaze, trapping officers while a mob threw debris from above; nine individuals are charged with a federal felony for interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder.

Pepper Spray Incident and Enforcement Stance

• 🍊 Federal agents also arrested Yiovanni Canal for pepper-spraying an FBI SWAT team inside a vehicle during a search warrant execution on June 6th in downtown LA.
• ⚖️ Canal is charged with pepper-spraying officers, causing injuries to at least two.
• 📢 The US Attorney emphasized that violence against law enforcement is unacceptable and illegal, leading to arrest, charges, and serious prison time.
• 🏛️ For those who disagree with federal immigration laws, the recourse is to address Congress, as law enforcement is obligated to enforce existing laws.
• ⚠️ The message is clear: these actions are dangerous, ineffective, and will not stop immigration enforcement operations.