A Las Vegas man faces federal assault charges for running into a U.S. Immigration and Customs detention officer with his vehicle. Lon Allen Clark, 29, was arrested Sept. 23 and charged with assault and resisting and impeding officers.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention officers were searching for a fugitive, Sept. 17, when they noticed a man, who they claim to be Clark, sitting alone in a parked Honda Accord.
The officers thought he may have been connected to the investigation, so they blocked him in with two —one in the front of his car and one in the back, both flashing emergency lights. One of the ICE officers attempted to approach the Honda Accord on foot, when the driver drove the car directly into the officer.
The driver hit the officer and the parked SUV and fled the scene. As he drove away, the officer fired his gun at the car, hitting it several times. The Honda Accord was later found, abandoned, with bullet holes in the front windows. The officers and agents believe Clark was the man driving the Accord that day.
(Source: Las Vegas Sun)
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