BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Honduran man was arrested and charged with assaulting a border patrol agent in Niagara Falls, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Customs and Border Protection agents encountered 28-year-old Esli Osman Diaz-Bejarano on St. Joseph Road on Sept. 2. Officials allege that Diaz ran away while Border Patrol agents tried to interview him during an immigration enforcement action.
Officials said Diaz resisted the officers’ restraint and allegedly bit the left wrist of an agent, causing a bleeding laceration. The agent was treated at DeGraff Memorial Hospital for the injury…