The Venezuelan national who was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a confrontation outside a Southeast Portland medical building in January was sentenced Wednesday to time served – eight and a half months in custody – for ramming his pickup truck into an unoccupied car rented by federal agents.
Luis Niño-Moncada will be deported to Venezuela.
It is an anticlimactic outcome for prosecutors in a case that, in the days after the shooting, prompted then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to pledge “the full force” of the Justice Department in Niño-Moncada’s prosecution…