{"id":97999,"date":"2025-12-17T07:57:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/97999\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T07:57:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:57:06","slug":"la-man-pleads-guilty-to-assaulting-a-federal-agent-during-an-immigration-enforcement-protest-in-paramount-pasadena-star-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/97999\/","title":{"rendered":"LA man pleads guilty to assaulting a federal agent during an immigration enforcement protest in Paramount \u2013 Pasadena Star News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of assaulting a federal agent during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/2025\/06\/10\/a-timeline-of-immigration-raid-protests-in-los-angeles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">illegal immigration enforcement protest<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Cerna-Camacho, 28, punched the officer during the demonstration in Paramount on June 7, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing is set for March 27.<\/p>\n<p>When agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security tried to detain Cerna-Camacho for the assault on June 11, days after the protest, he attempted to drive away from them, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/boyle-heights-man-charged-with-assaulting-federal-officer-during-protest\/3722949\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agents used their car to chase Cerna-Camacho\u2019s vehicle,<\/a> pinning it between two unmarked vehicles on Whittier Boulevard in Boyle Heights, court papers show.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the suspect\u2019s car contained a woman passenger and two children in the backseat when the vehicle was pinned. Cerna-Camacho then surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a targeted arrest of a violent rioter who punched a Customs and Border Protection officer,\u201d the Department of Homeland Security said.<\/p>\n<p>Cerna-Camacho entered his plea Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court to a single charge of assault on a federal officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of assaulting a federal agent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[46141,7,138,14,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,100,6336,236,13364],"class_list":{"0":"post-97999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-assault-and-battery","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-immigration","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-county","17":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","18":"tag-los-angeles-news","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-paramount","21":"tag-police","22":"tag-police-chase"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97999","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=97999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}