South LA tow truck driver found not guilty of stealing immigration agent’s car

A jury on Friday found a 33-year-old tow truck driver from South Los Angeles not guilty of stealing a federal agent’s SUV during an immigration arrest in August.

The Department of Justice charged Bobby Nunez, 33, with theft of government property for the incident, which carried a possible sentence of 10 years in federal prison. After a four-day trial, the jury deliberated for more than three hours and declared Nunez not guilty.

Prosecutors argued that Nunez allegedly “interfered” with federal officers while they arrested a Colombian woman, whom they claimed entered the country illegally…

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