ICE arrests illegal immigrant in violent scissors attack

An unlawful immigrant arrested Thursday in Massachusetts throughout a tense standoff that escalated between her household and federal authorities repeatedly stabbed her coworker with a pair of scissors and attacked the sufferer with a trash can over the summer time, officers stated Friday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers initially stopped Juliana Milena Ojeda-Montoya throughout a visitors cease in Fitchburg, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Boston, the Division of Homeland Safety stated.

Ojeda-Montoya was in a automotive on the time together with her husband, additionally an unlawful immigrant from Ecuador, and their youngster, who was sitting on her lap as a substitute of in a automotive seat, authorities stated.

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Juliana Milena Ojeda-Montoya (Division of Homeland Safety)

In the course of the cease, authorities instructed Ojeda-Montoya that they had a warrant for her arrest and requested her to offer the kid to her husband, Carlos Zapata Rivera. She reportedly refused and Rivera reportedly had a seizure.

ICE brokers on the scene known as 911, however Zapata refused medical consideration and confirmed no indicators of medical concern, DHS stated.

“Regardless of a number of makes an attempt by ICE legislation enforcement officers to de-escalate the scenario and repeated requests for the daddy to take custody of the kid, each mother and father acknowledged that they had been prepared to put the kid in state custody,” a DHS information launch stated. “When Zapata Rivera realized that he could be arrested for immigration violations if he didn’t comply with take custody of the kid, he out of the blue determined to be a great father and left with the kid.”

Throughout Ojeda-Montoya’s arrest, she resisted arrest and a crowd of agitators fashioned, authorities stated.

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Some individuals within the crowd reportedly started shouting obscenities, demise threats and anti-Semitic feedback at authorities, together with: “You most likely help Israel too… you appear like a Jew… I wager you are a Jew” and “I’ll keep in mind these eyes… I’ll discover you… I am coming for you… I do know you most likely have youngsters… We’ll kill you and your youngsters… I’ll shoot all of you.”

Fitchburg police despatched officers to the scene to maintain the peace.

In a press release, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin criticized the narrative that authorities had brought on Rivera’s medical episode.

“As soon as once more, the media ran a FALSE story about our courageous ICE legislation enforcement officers. As typical, right here is the REAL story: ICE focused a identified legal who repeatedly stabbed her colleague,” she stated. “The medical workers decided that there was no reputable medical emergency.”

She famous that moments later Zapata was captured on video on his ft.

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“Our legislation enforcement officers requested that the daddy take custody of the kid, however he refused,” she stated. “He shortly determined to go away with the kid when he realized that if he didn’t take custody, ICE would arrest him for an immigration violation.”

Zapata instructed the Boston Globe that the medical episode was attributable to immigration brokers “urgent his neck.”

“They pushed us collectively, there with our child within the center,” he stated, in keeping with the newspaper.

Ojeda-Montoya illegally entered america beneath the Biden administration close to Lukeville, Arizona, on Feb. 22, 2023, authorities stated. She was launched into the nation in March.

She was taken to the Cumberland County Jail in Scarborough, Maine and can stay in ICE custody pending elimination proceedings.

Zapata illegally entered america on the identical date as his spouse and was later launched.