3 people facing charges for allegedly sending ‘threatening’ messages to federal agents following ICE-involved shooting

Three people have been charged for allegedly threatening federal agents after FBI agents’ information was posted online in the aftermath of an ICE-involved shooting in north Minneapolis last month, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

The Jan. 14 shooting initially resulted in two men, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis and Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, being charged for allegedly assaulting ICE agents.

Witness accounts and video evidence indicated that the two men ran inside a home after being chased by ICE, and one of the agents shot through the door, hitting Sosa-Celis in the leg.

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Those accounts challenged the Department of Homeland Security’s initial claims that an agent fired a shot in self-defense after being beaten with a shovel and a broomstick.

A request was submitted by U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen to dismiss the charges on Thursday, citing “newly discovered evidence,” which resulted in two ICE agents being placed on leave for “untruthful statements.”

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Court records say that after the shooting, a large group of protestors in Minneapolis vandalized and damaged FBI-owned vehicles, stole weapons and ammunition, and took government-owned equipment and documents that contained federal employees’ phone numbers, emails, addresses and driver’s license numbers.

FBI personnel were on scene investigating the shooting and not for immigration enforcement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Charge for Illinois man

One of the FBI special agents whose information was taken and put online reportedly received “threatening” texts and voicemails on their government-issued cell phone on Jan. 15 and several days after that.

The attorney’s office said an investigation found a phone number associated with one of the voicemails and two text messages belonged to 29-year-old Jose Alberto Ramirez from Illinois. The messages allegedly said that the caller/sender knew where the special agent’s parents and children lived and told the agent to “get home safe and fast.”

A Minnesota federal grand jury indicted Ramirez with one count of interstate transmission of threats to injure a federal law enforcement officer, according to Rosen.

Charges for Washington woman

On Jan. 16, another FBI special agent reportedly received multiple “threatening” voicemail messages on their government-issued phone, with the person threatening to kill the agent and members of their family.

Investigators identified the phone number associated with three of the calls as belonging to 18-year-old Brenna Marie Doyle from Washington, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Doyle was indicted by a Minnesota federal grand jury for threatening to murder a federal law enforcement officer, threatening to murder members of the officer’s immediate family and interstate transmission of communications threatening to injure the federal agent and their family members.

Charges for California man

On Jan. 18, five FBI special agents whose information was taken also received a series of “threatening” text messages on their government-issued phones.

The attorney’s office says that one of the texts originated from a phone belonging to 45-year-old James Patrick Lyons from California. All five messages used similar language and allegedly said that the sender knew who the special agents were and where to find them.

Lyons was indicted by a Minnesota federal grand jury for interstate transmission of threats to injure five federal law enforcement officers.

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