http://www.justice.gov/usao/cas/press/2012/cas12-0416-Fonseca.pdf
Border Patrol Agent Charged with Unlawful Use of Force by a Law Enforcement Officer
NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - April 16, 2012
United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced the arraignment and unsealing of a criminal
indictment charging Luis E. Fonseca, a United States Border Patrol Agent assigned to the Imperial Beach
Border Patrol Station, with deprivation of rights under color of law. Border Patrol Agent Fonseca appeared
in federal court today before United States Magistrate Judge William McCurine, Jr.
According to the indictment, Border Patrol Agent Fonseca kneed and choked an unidentified alien,
depriving him of the right under the Constitution and the laws of the United States to be free from use of
unreasonable force by a law enforcement officer. The indictment also alleges as a result of the use of
unreasonable force the individual sustained bodily injury.
Border Patrol Agent Charged with Unlawful Use of Force by a Law Enforcement Officer
NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - April 16, 2012
United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced the arraignment and unsealing of a criminal
indictment charging Luis E. Fonseca, a United States Border Patrol Agent assigned to the Imperial Beach
Border Patrol Station, with deprivation of rights under color of law. Border Patrol Agent Fonseca appeared
in federal court today before United States Magistrate Judge William McCurine, Jr.
According to the indictment, Border Patrol Agent Fonseca kneed and choked an unidentified alien,
depriving him of the right under the Constitution and the laws of the United States to be free from use of
unreasonable force by a law enforcement officer. The indictment also alleges as a result of the use of
unreasonable force the individual sustained bodily injury.
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