Overview

• The Department of Justice filed a criminal complaint charging Jose de Jesus Ortega and Danielle Nadine Davila with assaulting a federal officer and conspiracy after a July 8 incident at the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center.
• Prosecutors say two plainclothes ICE officers in unmarked vehicles were pursuing a Honduran national who sought refuge inside the clinic despite not being a patient.
• Staffers are accused of demanding to see a warrant, blocking agents’ path, grabbing an officer’s arm and wedging between the agent and detainee as they intervened.
• Ortega, 38, was arrested on July 25 and appeared that afternoon in U.S. District Court in Riverside; Davila, 33, remains sought by Homeland Security Investigations.
• Each faces up to eight years in prison for assault plus six years for conspiracy, underscoring federal enforcement of property rights and due process in interior ICE operations.