In just four days since they arrested him and took him from a hospital, federal officials have tried to place the Central Valley man shot by ICE agents into jails in at least five different counties across California, his attorney said Thursday.
“For me it’s like, are you trying to hide him?” the man’s fiancée said at a news conference, where she and the attorney alleged that federal law enforcement is holding Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernández intentionally farther and farther away from both his Sacramento court hearings and his family in Patterson.
Mendoza Hernandez was charged with assault after an incident on April 7 about 40 miles south of Stockton, when authorities alleged he drove his car toward them, prompting agents to open fire. But Mendoza Hernández, his attorney, and another witness say agents fired at least one shot first, and that he was trying to drive to flee their gunfire.
He was hospitalized in Modesto with at least six gunshot wounds, according to his lawyer, and underwent surgery, but was taken into custody by the FBI earlier this week and now faces charges in federal court. Since then, his family has had increasing difficulty locating him, his attorney said…