{"id":452711,"date":"2025-12-17T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452711\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T07:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:20:12","slug":"la-man-pleads-guilty-to-assaulting-a-federal-agent-during-an-immigration-enforcement-protest-in-paramount-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/452711\/","title":{"rendered":"LA man pleads guilty to assaulting a federal agent during an immigration enforcement protest in Paramount \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of assaulting a federal agent during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2025\/06\/10\/a-timeline-of-immigration-raid-protests-in-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegal immigration enforcement protest<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Cerna-Camacho, 28, punched the officer during the demonstration in Paramount on June 7, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing is set for March 27.<\/p>\n<p>When agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security tried to detain Cerna-Camacho for the assault on June 11, days after the protest, he attempted to drive away from them, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/boyle-heights-man-charged-with-assaulting-federal-officer-during-protest\/3722949\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agents used their car to chase Cerna-Camacho\u2019s vehicle,<\/a> pinning it between two unmarked vehicles on Whittier Boulevard in Boyle Heights, court papers show.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the suspect\u2019s car contained a woman passenger and two children in the backseat when the vehicle was pinned. Cerna-Camacho then surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a targeted arrest of a violent rioter who punched a Customs and Border Protection officer,\u201d the Department of Homeland Security said.<\/p>\n<p>Cerna-Camacho entered his plea Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court to a single charge of assault on a federal officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of assaulting a federal agent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":452712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[52371,1582,276,5295,409,2961,224,6080,5337,50,15329,7207,72817,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-452711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-assault-and-battery","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-county","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-paramount","19":"tag-police","20":"tag-police-chase","21":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115733700516970614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}