{"id":481587,"date":"2026-10-30T17:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481587\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T17:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:34:13","slug":"ice-officer-indicted-in-texas-after-allegedly-hitting-man-with-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481587\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE officer indicted in Texas after allegedly hitting man with vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was indicted on a felony for allegedly hitting a man with a vehicle<\/a> earlier this month, a Texas district attorney announced Friday.<\/p>\n

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said ICE Officer Mario Alberto Morales was indicted by a grand jury on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n

Teare said if convicted, the punishment would be a prison sentence lasting between two and 20 years.<\/p>\n

Teare accused Morales of hitting Miguel Parra-Hernandez, a Mexican national who the district attorney said has been living in Texas for more than 30 years without documentation. Parra-Hernandez doesn’t have a criminal record and didn’t have a deportation order against him, Teare said.<\/p>\n

Morales engaged in a pursuit of a vehicle being driven by Parra-Hernandez on Oct. 10. During the pursuit, Parra-Hernandez and another person fled the vehicle on foot. At a news conference Friday, a video was played showing the moments when Teare said Morales hit Parra-Hernandez with his vehicle.<\/p>\n

\"Harris<\/p>\n

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, left, and Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez attend a news conference Oct. 30, 2026, in Houston, announcing the indictment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Mario Alberto Morales. \/ Credit: Melissa Phillip\/Houston Chronicle via AP<\/p>\n

Footage from what Teare said was Morales’ body camera showed Parra-Hernandez groaning in pain on the ground after he was hit by the vehicle, which the district attorney said was a 2025 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Parra-Hernandez suffered a broken leg in the incident.<\/p>\n

“Like, I was coming in, and I hit him with the car,” the officer wearing the body camera said in the footage to someone else.<\/p>\n

In the immediate aftermath of the incident, an ICE spokesperson had said in a statement to CBS News that Parra-Hernandez ran in front of the ICE vehicle.<\/p>\n

Teare noted that ICE had said agents were pursuing a man named Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, who the agency said was a Mexican national and undocumented immigrant. Teare said Friday that Mendoza-Cervantes has apparently been dead for nine years.<\/p>\n

\"Cesar<\/p>\n

Cesar Espinosa of FIEL speaks during a news conference about an Immigration and Customs Enforcement action that left Miguel Parra Hernandez with a broken leg. \/ Credit: Raquel Natalicchio\/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was indicted on a felony for allegedly hitting a man with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-481587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}