LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KEYT) – Announced in a press release by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday morning, a total of 12 individuals have been federally charged with “engaging in violence and civil disorder against law enforcement officers and property during immigration enforcement actions in Southern California earlier this year,” including Isai Carrillo of Oxnard.
The press release, issued by Acting United States Attorney Bilal A. Essayli representing Central District of California, details the arrests of several defendants federally charged in three criminal complaints across South California.
United States v. Reyes, et al.
Two Oxnard residents, Virginia Reyes and Isai Carrillo, are both being charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer during a July 10th federal raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo. The DOJ claims the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) executed several search warrants at the farm locations in Camarillo and Carpinteria when members of VC Defensa began to “follow, chase, agitate, and impede federal agents enforcing immigration laws.”
Reyes is accused of participating in a creating a roadblock preventing agents from entering and exiting Glass House Farms, while the DOJ says Carrillo and other threw rocks at government vehicles…