A man who was shot by ICE agents during a traffic stop, then arrested by the FBI after his release from the hospital, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in California, according to court documents.
Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez faces two counts of assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon and one count of destruction of government property, following a traffic stop last month in which federal agents fired at him as he allegedly tried to flee.
An arraignment and status hearing is scheduled for Monday at 9:30 a.m. before US District Judge Dale A. Drozd, according to court records.
ICE identified Mendoza Hernandez as an undocumented immigrant whom the department described as an “18th Street Gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection to a murder.”
But “from everything we can find, he was not” a gang member, his attorney, Patrick Kolasinski, said in a news conference the day after the shooting.
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