A Portland, Oregon, man pleaded guilty to his role in the violent assault of a U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) officer in June 2025. Robert Jacob Hoopes pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of a federal employee with a dangerous weapon resulting in bodily injury on Wednesday.
According to court documents, the ICE field office in Portland had been under constant siege of protests for several weeks before the incident involving Hoopes occurred on June 14, 2025. Protesters and agitators were known to have engaged in acts of aggression involving violence towards ICE employees and actions that caused damage to personal and government property at the facility, according to the criminal complaint filed against Hoopes.
According to the FBI, the violence against ICE agents involved throwing rocks, trash, and bricks pulled from the facility driveway. Hoopes was observed by security cameras engaging in similar behavior at the time he committed the assault at the facility, court documents revealed…