A Venezuelan man was accused of trying to murder an ICE officer. Then bystander video surfaced
Bystander video undercut the original arrest account, and the judge said government reports were embellished as prosecutors later dropped the attempted murder charge.
- District Court Chief Judge Robert Rossiter criticized government accounts of Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco's June 18, 2025, arrest as "embellished" during sentencing, noting bystander videos contradicted official claims.
- Before video evidence emerged, federal officials alleged Hurtado-Cariaco slammed an agent's head into the ground and applied a chokehold in Bellevue, Nebraska, branding him a "vicious Tren de Aragua gang member."
- Footage recorded by Victor Aragon showed the only chokeholds visible were "inflicted by the federal officers themselves," Rossiter said, directly contradicting government claims about Hurtado-Cariaco's conduct.
- Hurtado-Cariaco was sentenced on July 2 to 14 months in prison for resisting arrest, but federal agents took him back into custody on July 10, only two weeks later.
- Federal Public Defender Richard McWilliams argued the case reflects a pattern where video evidence undercuts DHS narratives, stating, "if no one had recorded it, we'd be going to trial" on much graver charges.
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Por Ray Sanchez, CNN Días después de que Gabriel Hurtado Cariaco fuera detenido por agentes federales en Nebraska el verano pasado, las autoridades tildaron al repartidor venezolano con calificativos incendiarios: “un extranjero indocumentado criminal”, “un conocido terrorista del Tren de Aragua” e incluso alegaron que había golpeado la cabeza de una agente contra el suelo y la había estrangulado. Pero esa versión de los hechos, difundida por al…
Video evidence in Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco case contradicts feds’ account
Days after Gabriel Hurtado-Cariaco was arrested by federal officers in Nebraska last summer, government officials branded the Venezuelan delivery driver with incendiary labels: “a criminal illegal alien,” “a known Tren de Aragua terrorist” and even alleged he slammed one agent’s head into the ground and choked her.
News of the Day and the Hour Latest News of the day Days after Gabriel Hurtado Cariaco was arrested by federal agents in Nebraska last summer, the authorities labeled the Venezuelan deliveryer as incendiary: “an undocumented criminal alien”, “a known terrorist of the Aragua Train” and even claimed that he had hit the head of an agent against the ground and strangled it. But that version of the events, spread by some media, began to crumble when…
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