A Jacksonville woman was sentenced for assaulting law enforcement officers in a Florida immigration operation.
In the Florida case, 41-year-old Jennifer Susan Cruz, of Jacksonville, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger for assaulting officers conducting an immigration operation.
According to court documents, on January 13, 2026, federal immigration officers, assisted by the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), were conducting an operation in Jacksonville to locate and administratively arrest aliens who were illegally present in the United States. Cruz was driving by and recording on her cellphone as an FHP trooper was pulling over a vehicle for a traffic infraction. Cruz parked near the site of the traffic stop and yelled at the trooper as she continued to record. Immigration officers subsequently determined that the two occupants of the vehicle they had pulled over were illegally present in the United States…