Overview
- Marimar Martinez, who was shot by a Border Patrol agent on Oct. 4, faces a federal charge of using a vehicle to assault agents and has pleaded not guilty.
- U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis scheduled jury selection to begin Feb. 2 and ordered the agent’s SUV returned to Chicago on a flatbed for evidence review.
- The court will question the agent on Nov. 6 about driving his assigned vehicle to Maine before defense experts could examine it, a move the defense says jeopardized evidence.
- Defense filings say body‑camera footage undercuts DHS claims that agents were boxed in and allege an agent used an expletive before firing five shots.
- Charging documents describe contact between the vehicles and note a loaded gun in Martinez’s car that prosecutors say was not brandished, while her attorney says she is licensed and the firearm was secured in her purse; co‑defendant Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz also pleaded not guilty.