Overview
- Video from the Cypress Park Home Depot shows masked, armed agents arresting a U.S. citizen and then driving away in his car with his 1-year-old daughter strapped in the back seat.
- DHS says the man exited his vehicle wielding a hammer and threw rocks at agents, and that a pistol reported stolen from New York was found in the car.
- The toddler was held for several hours and released to her grandmother at Border Patrol offices after the family produced the child’s birth certificate.
- The man, identified by family as Dennis Quinonez, is a U.S. citizen being held pending investigation; officials also cited an active warrant for property damage.
- Five people were taken into custody on suspected immigration violations during the operation, as advocacy groups condemned the tactics and questioned why agents moved the child in the suspect’s vehicle.