Dozens of federal agents used explosives to raid Huntington Park on Friday morning, but the suspects who were looking for him were not – his girlfriend and young children were.
After the explosions blew the windows, the agents kicked the tactical gear of the front door and stormed the house in the 7500 block from California Street, where they believed that the suspicion might be Jorge Sierra Hernandez. Customs and US border protection later confirmed that it was the goal of the operation.
Univision “I am tense. I am really tense. I don’t know what to do. I needed help. I shouldn’t come to my house with this violence.”
Ramirez also said: “They told me that they are from internal security and ice. They just exploded in my window and Babi. They did not specify those who were looking for it.”
The accident that led to the raid stems from the June 20 protest in Bell. Federal officials claim that Sierra Hernandez shocked his car in the CBP unit while protesting. However, the neighbors Ktla told that a federal agent claiming to have verified the brakes Sierra Hernandez, who was driving a black jeep. According to what was interrogated and released at that time, the officials did not confirm this version of the events.
Bell police initially published a statement about the online accident, but it has been removed since then. Ktla arrived to clarify, but she didn’t hear again.
However, previous stories on this protest included clips of the release, and informed that the Bill Police Administration responded to a traffic collision that included a child who was injured near Atlantic Avenue and Brompton Street at about 3 pm on June 20. Initial reports stated that in front of the pocket under the border border vehicle, and that federal agents are working to separate cars and get out of the child. The driver, according to Bell PD, had already left or was removed from the pocket by the time when the officers arrived. At the scene, the police said they had learned that a Jeep driver had a border border vehicle.
“Because of the increased tensions surrounding federal immigration enforcement activities, the crowd began to form around the scene,” added BPD. “Some individuals have violated traffic safety, and attacked customs customers, border balance, and police vehicles.”
KTLA is still working to confirm the details of the bell incident and why officials returned in search of that resident on Friday morning.
The officials initially told KTLA on Friday, “CBP does not comment on active operations. But what you see is the consequences of someone hinders and assaulted federal agents.”
However, later in the day, customs and border protection issued the following updated statement: “Jorge Sierra Hernandez was arrested because he hit his car in the CBP, causing severe damage and obstruction American citizens, consequences that include detention. “
The neighbors say that Sierra Hernandez handed himself over to the authorities later on Friday afternoon.
This was not the first time that Federal agents have tried a house in Huntington Park, where they found a mother and children instead of finding the suspect at home. On June 12, US Internal Security Minister Christie sleep joined federal immigration agents in a raid targeting a man with a criminal record. About half of the vehicles carrying and weapons filled with weapons, the enforcement agents of immigration and customs in the United States, which is occupied by a 28 -year -old pregnant mother and her four children. The agents were looking for her husband, who was not at home at the time. DHS later posted on X that the goal of the raid was “an illegal foreigner from Mexico that was previously deported. Its criminal history includes drug smuggling and assault.”