A federal grand jury indicted two Los Angeles-area residents on charges related to assaults on federal officers standing guard at a federal building in downtown Los Angeles during a protest against immigration enforcement last month, authorities announced Aug 8.
Erin Petra Escobar, 34, of the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles, was charged with one felony count of assault on a federal officer.
She is also suspected of defacing the federal building and was charged with one misdemeanor count of depredation of government property.
The second suspect, Nick Elias Gutierrez, 20, of Hawthorne, about 16 miles south of Los Angeles, was charged with two felonies—one count of assault on a federal officer and one count of assault on a federal officer resulting in bodily injury….