WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
DEL RIO, Texas - A Uvalde man was sentenced to 24 months in prison for assaulting a United States Border Patrol agent, announced U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas.
According to court documents, on Jan. 6, Maximiliano Arellano, 25, underwent a routine immigration checkpoint inspection at the Uvalde Border Patrol Immigration Checkpoint. Arellano was referred to a secondary inspection due to positive detection by the service canine. At secondary inspection, Arellano became agitated, repeatedly called Border Patrol agents racial slurs, and refused to comply with the age...