Left-coast jury in Seattle acquits criminal illegal alien who rammed ICE agents with vehicle
A dangerous precedent may have been set in the Emerald City after a Mexican national on trial for four alleged felonies against federal agents was acquitted of all charges.
Efforts across the country to restore national sovereignty through mass deportations have been met with the typical wailing and gnashing of teeth common among leftists, but also dramatic upticks in violence against federal immigration officers. Amid attempts to paint an anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (D) activist as a victim after she was fatally shot while driving her vehicle at a federal official, a Seattle jury acquitted an illegal alien who’d similarly hospitalized multiple officials as he attempted to flee arrest.
The decision handed down on Jan. 9, 2026, acquitted Vivanco-Reyes of four felony counts of assaulting federal officers with a deadly weapon, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, regarding his attempt to escape those officers on Camano Island during a second attempt to execute an immigration arrest warrant.
Court documents alleged that on June 6, 2025, federal agents wearing clearly marked body armor and traveling in unmarked vehicles had blocked the path of the illegal alien’s vehicle after a period of surveillance following a previous attempt to execute the warrant.
When one agent had partially exited a patrol vehicle with lights flashing, the prosecution alleged that Vivanco-Reyes accelerated, collided with the vehicle, and pinned the agent’s shoulder in the vehicle’s door.
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The fleeing suspect then drove into another federal vehicle before crashing into a telephone pole, leaving the illegal alien allegedly attesting, “I f*cked up, I f*cked up,” as he was arrested. Originally charged with two counts, KOMO News indicated that the grand jury indictment had increased to four counts, with each one representing one of the officers involved in the incident.
The successful apprehension on Camano Island had followed a May 2025 attempt to execute a warrant against the Mexican national during which, after initially stopping, he allegedly sped off, nearly striking a pedestrian and vehicles that included a school bus, according to the prosecution. Federal officials had based the warrant on a 2019 felony conviction and a 2014 misdemeanor conviction.
Efforts across the country to restore national sovereignty through mass deportations have been met with the typical wailing and gnashing of teeth common among leftists, but also dramatic upticks in violence against federal immigration officers. Amid attempts to paint an anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (D) activist as a victim after she was fatally shot while driving her vehicle at a federal official, a Seattle jury acquitted an illegal alien who’d similarly hospitalized multiple officials as he attempted to flee arrest.
The decision handed down on Jan. 9, 2026, acquitted Vivanco-Reyes of four felony counts of assaulting federal officers with a deadly weapon, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, regarding his attempt to escape those officers on Camano Island during a second attempt to execute an immigration arrest warrant.
Court documents alleged that on June 6, 2025, federal agents wearing clearly marked body armor and traveling in unmarked vehicles had blocked the path of the illegal alien’s vehicle after a period of surveillance following a previous attempt to execute the warrant.
When one agent had partially exited a patrol vehicle with lights flashing, the prosecution alleged that Vivanco-Reyes accelerated, collided with the vehicle, and pinned the agent’s shoulder in the vehicle’s door.
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The fleeing suspect then drove into another federal vehicle before crashing into a telephone pole, leaving the illegal alien allegedly attesting, “I f*cked up, I f*cked up,” as he was arrested. Originally charged with two counts, KOMO News indicated that the grand jury indictment had increased to four counts, with each one representing one of the officers involved in the incident.
The successful apprehension on Camano Island had followed a May 2025 attempt to execute a warrant against the Mexican national during which, after initially stopping, he allegedly sped off, nearly striking a pedestrian and vehicles that included a school bus, according to the prosecution. Federal officials had based the warrant on a 2019 felony conviction and a 2014 misdemeanor conviction.
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