MCALLEN, TX—Jorge Cruz-Gallardo, Jr.,
25, of Guadalajara, Mexico, been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, with
no parole for assaulting and causing bodily injury to a Border Patrol agent who
was trying to detain him, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced
today.
On February 2, 2012, Cruz pleaded guilty
before U.S. District Judge Randy Crane to the assault charge, acknowledging
that on May 10, 2011, he ran from agents who spotted him in a group of
suspected illegal aliens south of McAllen and near the Rio Grande River. When
one of the agents caught up with him, Cruz resisted and assaulted the agent,
causing him injury.
Cruz has been detained since the assault
where he will remain pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility in
the near future.
The U.S. Border Patrol and the FBI
investigated and Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Sully prosecuted the case.
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