A Paramount man was sentenced this week to 10 months in prison for throwing chunks of cinder block at Border Patrol agents, injuring one, during an immigration protest last summer.<\/p>\n
Jacob Daniel Terrazas, 31, previously pleaded guilty in January to a misdemeanor count of simple assault on a federal officer.<\/p>\n
Terrazas admitted in his plea agreement that during a protest in Paramount on June 7, 2025, he threw chunks of a broken cinder block at agents. One of the chunks hit a Border Patrol agent in the right shin, resulting in bruising and bleeding, according to the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in L.A.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were clear that if you attack federal agents you will be facing time in federal prison,\u201d said First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli in a news release. \u201cThis sentence delivers on that promise to hold those accountable who dare to interfere or attack federal agents. Don\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under Essayli, federal prosecutors in L.A. have aggressively charged protesters with assaulting and impeding the actions of immigration agents, filing more than 100 cases. <\/p>\n
According to data from June, prosecutors have secured guilty pleas in 40 of those cases \u2014 but lost nearly every case that has gone to trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Paramount man was sentenced this week to 10 months in prison for throwing chunks of cinder block…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":952866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2322,158395,29414,6512,1582,276,6517,383475,119391,130750,4155,119389,2961,224,5337,2089,15329,110835,247157,2326],"class_list":["post-952865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-agent","tag-anti-ice-protest","tag-bill-essayli","tag-border-patrol-agent","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-case","tag-cinder-block-chunk","tag-federal-officer","tag-federal-prosecutor","tag-june","tag-l-a-protest","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-man","tag-paramount","tag-prison-sentence","tag-simple-assault","tag-u-s-attorney"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116966322897174902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952865","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=952865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}