Federal authorities are searching for a Honduran man accused of injuring three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop in Lewisville, after prosecutors unsealed a federal indictment Thursday and asked the public for help locating him.
Prosecutors unsealed the indictment against 28-year-old Jerson Lopez-Sanchez, who is charged with three counts of assault of a federal agent and is currently not in custody. Authorities said Lopez-Sanchez is an undocumented immigrant.
According to an indictment unsealed in the Eastern District of Texas, federal immigration officers in three vehicles attempted a traffic stop on a white pickup truck that was driving on I-35 in Lewisville on Dec. 1. The truck pulled off the interstate onto South Stemmons Freeway near Vista Ridge Mall.
The driver of the pickup, who prosecutors identified as Lopez-Sanchez, initially stopped, then put his truck in reverse, hitting one of the ICE vehicles. An ICE agent had one leg outside of the vehicle and was injured, the release said…