Interstate authorities are offering a $15,000 reward in the hunt for a man accused of using his truck to injure three federal immigration agents during a December traffic stop in Lewisville.
The 28-year-old Honduran national, identified as Jerson Lopez-Sanchez, was indicted Jan. 14 in the Eastern District of Texas on three counts of assaulting federal agents after federal officers say he struck their vehicles while trying to flee.
The incident unfolded just before 8 a.m. Dec. 1 when agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attempted a traffic stop on I-35E near FM 3040.
Prosecutors say Lopez-Sanchez initially stopped, then reversed and rammed an ICE vehicle, injuring an agent, before accelerating into a second federal vehicle as he drove away.
Three occupants of the truck were later detained following a foot chase, but Lopez-Sanchez remains at large, and authorities are urging anyone with information to contact the FBI. A federal indictment alleges the violent assault, and the reward is being offered for tips that help secure his arrest.
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