SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man was charged Thursday with attacking his probation officer during an escape attempt.
It’s the second time Sergio Lopez Ramirez, 43, has been accused of injuring an officer while trying to get away.
On June 25, 2025, two Adult Probation and Parole agents were transporting Lopez to the Salt Lake County Jail when the outside gates were malfunctioning. While the agents got out of their car to help jail staff, Lopez “slipped his handcuffs to the front of his body, and he began hitting and kicking the back window in an attempt to escape,” according to charging documents. Lopez then allegedly used the light bar to break the back window…