KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Two more people have been charged after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted a raid at a Hardin Valley construction site on January 13.
Towards the end of January, an initial indictment was filed accusing Tyler Shane Wells, 33, of Morristown, and 18-year-old Alexander Bonilla-Servin of Smyrna, of plotting to block the entrance to the construction site with Bonilla-Servin’s pickup truck in an effort to impede ICE agents. A superseding indictment was then filed in March, charging Omar Bonilla-Serna and Nicholas Foy Pastore, as well as Wells and Servin.
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In the new indictment, all four men were accused of conspiring with each other to help conceal, harbor, and shield from detection people who illegally entered the United States for financial gain. Counts Four through Nine in the indictment allege that the four worked together to knowingly help conceal and hide specific people who were in the United States illegally.
Wells, Bonilla-Serna and Bonilla-Servin were also accused of conspiring to prevent federal officers from performing their official duties. As part of this conspiracy, Bonilla-Servin is accused of using a truck to block the only entrance to a construction site to prevent federal agents from entering.
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The indictment alleged Bonilla-Servin used the truck to “counter-surveil” the agents and that, on January 13, he drove the truck into the agents’ vehicle while they were in it, injuring them. The indictments characterize this as using the truck as “a dangerous and deadly weapon.” He faces an additional charge related to accusations about the truck…