Illegal alien who dragged border agent gets soft sentence

Carolyn Hileman* | March 4, 2007

SAN DIEGO — The driver of a car that dragged a Border Patrol agent into oncoming traffic in North County was sentenced Friday in San Diego to 15 months in federal prison, authorities said. U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw also ordered defendant Francisco Javier Rodriguez-Salazar, 21, to serve two years of supervised release when he is released from custody. Rodriguez-Salazar, a Mexican citizen who is in this country illegally, pleaded guilty Dec. 15 to a grand jury indictment alleging assault on a federal officer, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Ott. He said the agent, who has since retired, was bruised and sore after the Aug. 17 incident on North River Road near Bonsall. “Everybody’s very lucky that the agent wasn’t injured severely or dead,” Ott said.

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