{"id":411901,"date":"2026-07-25T11:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411901\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:08:39","slug":"san-francisco-judge-to-weigh-the-fate-of-trial-in-ice-officer-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411901\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Judge to Weigh the Fate of Trial in ICE Officer Assault Case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ranney\u2019s lawyers argue that the government withheld critical evidence in his case.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement building at 630 Sansome St., in San Francisco, California, on Feb. 5, 2020. A man arrested in August for allegedly assaulting an ICE officer is scheduled to stand trial Monday. \u00a0(Beth LaBerge\/KQED)<\/p>\n

A San Francisco judge will soon decide whether or not to proceed with the criminal trial of a man charged with assaulting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.<\/a><\/p>\n

Caleb Alexander Ranney was arrested on Aug. 8, 2025, at 630 Sansome St., the city\u2019s ICE field office and detention facility, after an hourslong standoff between protesters and ICE agents.<\/p>\n

Roughly 10 protesters were outside when two vans left the building at 3:18 p.m., escorted by about a dozen uniformed officers who pointed pepper ball rifles and batons at the crowd, according to Mission Local<\/a>, which obtained a video detailing the incident.<\/p>\n

The outlet reported that ICE officers tackled and detained two protesters outside the building at around 3:25 p.m.<\/p>\n

Protesters at the scene later told Mission Local that approximately three minutes after detaining the protesters, officers fired pepper balls under the garage door.<\/p>\n

\"\"Led by Aztec traditional dancers, demonstrators march around the ICE Field Office on Sansome Street in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2025, calling for the agency\u2019s removal from the city.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors charged Ranney in December with two misdemeanors: assaulting a federal officer and destroying government property. They submitted the charges by information \u2014 a document that the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office files directly, without having to go through a grand jury.<\/p>\n

The document alleges that Ranney \u201cforcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated, and interfered with\u201d an ICE deportation officer it identifies only as \u201cVictim One,\u201d and that he damaged a secure vehicle entrance on the Jackson Street side of the building.<\/p>\n

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday.<\/p>\n

Ranney\u2019s defense has asked the U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Hixson, who will preside over the trial, to consider the actions by a different officer at the scene: Federal Protective Service Inspector Stephen Glumaz. The public defenders alleged that Glumaz fired pepper ball rounds into the crowd shortly before the alleged assault.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The latest motion from Ranney\u2019s defense marks the third allegation that the government mishandled evidence in the case. Hixson has already ruled that agents unconstitutionally searched Ranney\u2019s backpack, and separately sanctioned the government for losing or destroying items taken from it, though he declined to dismiss the case on those grounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Anti-ICE protesters chant over SFPD officers during a demonstration outside the ICE offices in San Francisco on June 8, 2025.<\/p>\n

The defense now argues that those episodes amount to \u201ca pattern of misconduct by government agents with regard to the search in this case, spoliation of evidence, and lying about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June, prosecutors left Glumaz off their witness list, and the defense subpoenaed him on July 9 to testify at trial.<\/p>\n

According to the motion, Glumaz\u2019s supervisor emailed him on March 25 to inform him that he had been decertified \u201cas a PepperBall and FN303 operator\u201d and could not possess or operate either weapon until further notice. The last line of that email, defense attorneys wrote, said the decertification was \u201cin connection with the use of force incidents\u201d on Aug. 8 and Aug. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n

The motion said that prosecutors did not turn that email over until the evening of July 22 \u2014 nearly four months after it was sent \u2014 and five days before trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whether Glumaz has since regained his certification is not clear from the filings.<\/p>\n

\"\"Protesters link arms during an anti-ICE protest on June 8, 2025.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors objected at Thursday\u2019s hearing to the defense\u2019s follow-up discovery demands \u2014 such as personnel files, use-of-force reports, agent text messages, and records from other San Francisco protests involving the same agents. The defense\u2019s motion said prosecutors called their demands overly broad or unworkable.<\/p>\n

If Hixson does decline to dismiss the case, the defense said, they are asking him to instruct jurors that the government violated its disclosure obligations. That instruction would allow jurors to weigh the violation when they deliberate.<\/p>\n

Ranney is not in custody and has been under pretrial supervision since December \u2014 when his first court appearance took place. According to the motion, Hixson warned prosecutors that failing to meet their disclosure obligations could result in dismissal.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ranney\u2019s lawyers argue that the government withheld critical evidence in his case. The U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-411901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}