A federal judge has sentenced an El Paso man to 19 years in prison for shooting at a U.S. Border Patrol agent. The U.S. District Attorney of New Mexico made the announcement Friday.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal judge sentenced an El Paso man to 19 years in prison for shooting at a U.S. Border Patrol agent, the U.S. District Attorney of New Mexico announced Friday.
He opened fire on an unnamed agent and struck him twice in the torso area after the agent stopped him on a rural stretch of New Mexico highway during a “routine immigration inspection,” according to court records and the district attorney’s office. Esquivel, a U.S. citizen, had five people in the car who had entered the country illegally, according to court records. He later admitted to transporting migrants who came to the U.S. illegally on four different occasions.
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