UPDATE: Two People Charged for Attacking ICE Agents in Chicago

The Department of Justice has charged two people who were involved in Saturday’s attack on ICE agents in Chicago.

On Saturday, anti-ICE protestors rammed their cars into a Border Patrol vehicle in an attempt to trap it in.

For reference, here’s the video from that attack:

BREAKING: This is the video where Marimar Martinez, aka La Maggie, rammed a white DHS vehicle who had their emergency lights on. Another DHS black SUV then attempts to ram Marimar's SUV from behind. One DHS agent is on the passenger side firing shots. Democrats are insane. pic.twitter.com/PaQglaPjZS

— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) October 5, 2025

One of the attackers, Marimar Martinez, was allegedly armed with a semi-automatic gun, forcing ICE agents to open fire at her vehicle.

Martinez, who goes by “La Maggie” online, was shot in the leg and treated at a hospital.

She is known for doxxing ICE agents.

This is the armed woman known as “La Maggie” who has a history of doxxing ICE agents. Today she rammed her vehicle into an ICE vehicle and was shot for her efforts. pic.twitter.com/AGjnmUoOk6

— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) October 5, 2025

Now, “La Maggie” is one of the two people facing serious federal charges.

Another assailant, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, is also being charged.

Here are the details:

🚨 BREAKING: The Trump DOJ just criminally charged these individuals with using their vehicles to ATTACK federal agents in Chicago yesterday.

Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos struck a CBP vehicle and BOXED IT IN.

Both are charged with forcibly assaulting, impeding, and… pic.twitter.com/7IOIvaosdM

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 5, 2025

🚨 BREAKING: The Trump DOJ just criminally charged these individuals with using their vehicles to ATTACK federal agents in Chicago yesterday.

Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos struck a CBP vehicle and BOXED IT IN.

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Both are charged with forcibly assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer.

I WANT TO SEE PRISON. Make an example.

BOOM 💥

Marimar Martinez and Santos-Ruiz are charged with forcibly assaulting impeding and interfering with ICE agts

Each face (22) yrs in prison ($350K) dollar fines

I'm calling on @AGPamBondi to charge them with attempted murder which carries life w-o parole

WHO'S WITH ME pic.twitter.com/79dXf9UMVA

— @Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) October 5, 2025

BOOM 💥

Marimar Martinez and Santos-Ruiz are charged with forcibly assaulting impeding and interfering with ICE agts

Each face (22) yrs in prison ($350K) dollar fines

I’m calling on @AGPamBondi
to charge them with attempted murder which carries life w-o parole

WHO’S WITH ME

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In the attack, several ICE agents were also injured.

Both Martinez and Ruiz have been charged with assaulting, impeding, and interfering with a federal law enforcement officer.

Chicago Sun Times has more:

A Department of Homeland Security statement says the woman rammed her vehicle into the vehicle of federal agents, then took “defensive fire” from the agents. The woman was treated at a hospital and was discharged into the custody of the FBI, the statement says.

The charges filed Sunday morning accuse Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, of driving their vehicles in a civilian “convoy” that was following federal agents driving as part of a security detail for a Customs and Border Protection operation.

According to the eight-page criminal complaint, the civilian vehicle “drove aggressively and erratically towards” the federal agents’ vehicles, disobeyed stop signs, red lights and drove “the wrong way down one-way streets in order to pursue the CBP vehicles.”

When the agents’ vehicle neared 39th Street and Kedzie Avenue, civilian vehicles boxed them in, and Martinez drove her vehicle up along the driver’s side of one of the agent’s vehicles, according to the charges. That’s when Martinez’s vehicle sideswiped the federal vehicle, and Ruiz’s vehicle struck the rear-right end of the federal vehicle, the charges state.

Agents then got out of the vehicle, and Martinez then drove toward one of the agents, according to the charges. The agent then fired “approximately five shots from his service weapon at the driver of the Martinez vehicle,” the charges state. Martinez continued driving north on Kedzie, the charges state.

After the shooting, Ruiz drove to a gas station, where authorities arrested him, according to the charges. Paramedics found Martinez at a repair shop near 35th Street and California Avenue, about a mile northwest of where the shooting happened, and she was treated at a hospital for “gunshot wounds,” the charges state.

The charges say Martinez and Ruiz “forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated, and interfered with an officer of the United States.” The charges do not mention anything about Martinez being found with a gun, which a separate DHS statement alleges.

Relatives of Martinez told the Sun-Times on Sunday that she was OK and remains in federal custody.

Your thought?

In addition to Martinez and Ruiz, six others were arrested during the protests that followed the scene of the attack on Saturday.

ABC 7 Chicago reported:

Meanwhile, six people people were arrested as demonstrators and officers clashed near the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Saturday.

The Cook County Sheriff’s Office said those arrested are facing charges such as resisting, obstructing and simple battery.

ABC7 cameras were on the scene when Illinois State Police detained at least four people.

Martinez and Ruiz could face sentences of 20+ years behind bars.

What do you think?

Do you support throwing the book at these two?