Overview

• Surveillance footage shows agents breaking Edgar Hernan Elias Escobar’s pickup window and pulling him from the vehicle during a pre-dawn stop in Malden.
• He was later seen on a stretcher with blood on his arm and was transported by ambulance to MelroseWakefield Hospital.
• DHS says he refused to roll down his window, medical staff found no injuries, he was discharged, and officers used the minimum force necessary.
• ICE identifies him as a citizen of El Salvador now held at the Plymouth County Sheriff’s ICE facility to be placed in deportation proceedings.
• Greater Boston Legal Services says he is married to a U.S. citizen with a pending USCIS petition and describes the arrest as part of a broader pattern in the Boston area.