{"id":70421,"date":"2025-12-25T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/70421\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T16:42:07","slug":"man-charged-with-assault-after-confrontation-with-immigration-officials-in-pittsburgh-wpxi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/70421\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with assault after confrontation with immigration officials in Pittsburgh \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man is facing assault charges after a confrontation with immigration officials<\/a> in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Cell phone video shared with Channel 11 showed the struggle that continued for several minutes.<\/p>\n

Federal court papers show Darwin Alexander Davila-Perez is charged with \u201cforcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding or interfering with \u2014 involving physical contact \u2014 certain officers or employees who were engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties.”<\/p>\n

According to an affidavit, ICE officers were trying to locate and apprehend Davila-Perez after he tried to buy a gun in Western Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n

The sale was denied because Davila-Perez is a Nicaraguan citizen with no legal status in the U.S., records say.<\/p>\n

On Dec. 17, ICE officers reportedly saw Davila-Perez exit his home in Pittsburgh\u2019s Mount Washington neighborhood and conducted a traffic stop on his truck along Norton Street.<\/p>\n

Records say Davila-Perez reversed his truck into an agent\u2019s vehicle before running onto a nearby home\u2019s front porch.<\/p>\n

An officer tried to handcuff Davila-Perez, who allegedly hit the officer in the face with his elbow. The two continued to struggle, with Davila-Perez allegedly reaching for the officer\u2019s weapon holster.<\/p>\n

Davila-Perez still did not comply and bit an officer\u2019s forearm, records say. Another officer deployed his pepper spray to try to subdue him.<\/p>\n

While being handcuffed, Davila-Perez allegedly swung the handcuffs at the officers, hitting one on the forehead.<\/p>\n

Records say officers commanded Davila-Perez to stop in English and Spanish throughout the encounter, but he continued to resist, necessitating physical force.<\/p>\n

One officer had a contusion on his forehead after being hit with the handcuffs, and another was given medical attention for the bite on his forearm, records say.<\/p>\n

A Pittsburgh Public Safety spokesperson told Channel 11 that police and medics were called to evaluate all parties after the incident.<\/p>\n

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