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Details are emerging about a incident outside ICE's Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado. Officials call it an egregious and coordinated attack on law enforcement.
Phones buzzed across Texas just before 8 p.m. Wednesday with a high-priority emergency alert. But it wasn't about flooding, a storm, or a missing child. It was about a five-day-old shooting at an ICE detention center hundreds of miles away.
A former DACA recipient who received a green card under the Biden administration has been charged in connection with an anti-ICE attack in Alvarado, Texas.
Federal prosecutors charged 10 individuals for their alleged roles in the shooting of an Alvarado police officer at the Prairieland Detention Center.
Federal officials say a police officer was shot on July 4 during a “planned ambush” with the intent to kill ICE detention officers.
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ALVARADO, Texas (AP) — Ten people have been arrested on attempted murder charges in connection with a shooting outside of a Texas immigration detention center that wounded a police officer, where people in black military-style clothing fired at authorities in a “planned ambush,” a U.S. attorney said.
Benjamin Hanil Song is accused of shooting an Alvarado police officer during an attack on the Prairieland Detention Center.
The 10 people arrested in connection with the shooting of a Texas police officer were part of a planned ambush on a detention center used to house U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, according to the United States Attorney overseeing the case.
The Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office helped arrest Sergio Olivares, a suspect accused of damaging and chasing an ICE vehicle in the Houston area.