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Federal prosecutors abruptly moved to dismiss the indictment against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz — two civilians accused of ramming a Customs and Border Protection vehicle during an O...
Marimar Martinez was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after federal officials said she attempted to ram and then drive at agents during an October immigration operation in Chicago — an account that ...
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a federal Border Patrol agent during an immigration enforcement operation in Brighton Park, Chicago; federal prosecutors initially alleged she rammed and boxed ...
Court filings and related motions in the case show the initially framed the October traffic confrontation as an ambush on federal agents and supported charging ; federal prosecutors later moved to dis...
Federal prosecutors have told a court they will no longer oppose releasing the body‑worn camera footage that shows the moments leading up to the Oct. 4 traffic crash connected to the shooting, but the...
Body‑cam footage has been the central contested piece in the case: defense lawyers and Martinez’s attorney say the videos show an agent egging on violence — “Do something, b----” — and appearing to un...
by federal immigration agents during an October enforcement encounter in Brighton Park, Chicago . Multiple local outlets and public testimony report that ; prosecutors later dropped criminal charges a...
Reporting across major outlets says U.S. citizen Marimar Martinez was shot by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Chicago on October 4, 2025; multiple sources report she was shot five times ...
The analyses consistently identify the Chicago operation as and place its start in early September 2025, but they disagree on the exact start date and on specific raid dates inside the overall operati...