2 charged in separate assaults on federal agents in Brownsville

This photo shows Eduardo Perez-Rodriguez fleeing ICE agents in Brownsville on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026 that Perez-Rodriguez had been indicted on charges of assaulting a federal officer. (Courtesy: USAO) Federal agents in Brownsville were assaulted on two different occasions where during one incident a 28-year-old Mexican national ran over an agent’s foot after refusing to exit his vehicle during a traffic stop. Eduardo Perez-Rodriguez was indicted on two counts of assaulting federal agents with his vehicle on Oct. 2, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. On that day, immigration officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were conducting immigration enforcement operations in the Brownsville area when they ran a license plate query on a silver Ford F-150. ICE agents assigned to the Harlingen Field Offic