A pair of illegal migrants tried to ram federal immigration agents during a bust in Denver before fleeing the feds – with one, a child sex abuse convict, still on the loose.
Mexican national Jose Mendez-Chavez, a pedophile who entered the US illegally at least a half-dozen times, was behind the wheel Thursday when he tried to slam into Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents near Colorado Springs, KMGH-TV News reported.
“Mendez was not an ‘innocent victim,’” an ICE spokesperson told the outlet. “He is an abuser who plays the system and is now wanted for assault on a federal officer.”
ICE says they now have Francisco Zapata-Pacheco in custody. ICE Denver
Teams of federal agents were staging an operation to capture two fugitives who tried to ram ICE agents and then fled by vehicle. APThe feds were conducting a raid at a construction site in Black Forest when they were attacked.
The agents fired three shots as the migrants sped away, but authorities nabbed the passenger in the vehicle, identified as Francisco Zapata-Pacheco, a few hours later.
He is being held for deportation proceedings, KMGH said.
Meanwhile, ICE slammed a local anti-ICE group that has been tipping off migrants about pending federal raids and disrupting arrest operations in the area, as “despicable.”
“Two criminal aliens attempted to ram their vehicle into ICE officers during a targeted enforcement operation in Colorado Springs,” a department spokesperson said.
Jose Mendez-Chavez is still on the run. ICE Denver“It is despicable that Colorado Rapid Response Network would show up in defense of an alien who has abused children and attempted to injure our officers,” the spokesperson said.
“ICE officers are facing an 830% increase in assaults,” they said. “Lies and violent rhetoric incite hostility against the brave men and women of ICE who put their lives on the line every day to protect American communities, as we witnessed in Colorado [on Thursday].”
Mendez-Chavez was most recently arrested in Texas for reckless endangerment in August 2020 and sentenced to a year in prison following a January 2020 arrest on reckless endangerment charges.
He was also convicted of domestic violence in Ohio in July 2013 and was sentenced to 180 days in jail, the outlet reported.
“He knows he’s not supposed to be here, since we’ve removed him six times previously,” the ICE spokesperson added.
