Federal prosecutors dropped charges against Juan Carlos Rodriguez Romero, a St. Paul man who immigration agents shot at on Dec. 21. The agents on the scene and the Department of Homeland Security accused Rodriguez Romero of ramming agents with his car, though agents’ stories contained contradictions.
On Monday, Department of Justice officials filed a motion asking a federal judge to dismiss their case against Rodriguez Romero, citing insufficient evidence.
Following a May 26 hearing, “the government thoroughly reassessed the evidence in this case, including the evidence obtained after the Indictment issued,” prosecutors wrote. “Given the information presently known, the government is not confident that ‘the admissible evidence at trial will probably be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction.’”…