Source: Administrative Office of the United States Courts, District of Illinois
Three Chicago-area individuals are facing federal charges after allegedly using their vehicles to intentionally obstruct federal agents, according to documents filed today in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The charges stem from two separate incidents where federal officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations and U.S. Customs and Border Protection were the targets of vehicular obstruction and assault.
Chicago’s U.S. Attorney’s Office, represented by Andrew S. Boutros, alongside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations, led by Special Agent-in-Charge Matthew J. Scarpino, disclosed the charges. Eighteen-year-old Widman Osberto Lopez Funes of Bensenville, Illinois, is accused of felony assault of a federal officer and depredation of U.S. property after he, allegedly, struck an ICE vehicle with his own on October 1, 2025. Miguel Escareno De Loera, 20, from Woodridge, is facing a similar felony assault charge for purportedly ramming his vehicle into an ICE agent’s car three times the following day. Meanwhile, Joel Gonzalez, 23, of Chicago, is charged with a misdemeanor offense for supposedly interfering with a federal officer by rear-ending a vehicle operated by Border Protection agents, also on October 2…