Man shot by Border Patrol in Portland arrested on aggravated assault cost

Man shot by Border Patrol in Portland arrested on aggravated assault cost

Published 8:15 am Monday, January 12, 2026

A person shot by U.S. Border Patrol brokers final week in Southeast Portland was arrested on an aggravated assault cost and booked into jail on Sunday.

FBI brokers arrested Luis David Nino-Moncada, 33, at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital on Jan. 11, as first reported by The Oregonian. Nino-Moncada was being handled on the hospital for a gunshot wound to his arm .

Nino-Moncada is charged with aggravated assault of a federal officer with a lethal or harmful weapon and damaging federal property in extra of $1,000. He was lodged on the Multnomah County Detention Center on a U.S. Marshals Service maintain at 2:08 p.m. Sunday.

“Anyone who crosses the red line of assaulting law enforcement will be met with the full force of this Justice Department,” U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi wrote in a information launch on Monday. “This man — an illegal alien with ties to a foreign terrorist organization — should NEVER have been in our country to begin with, and we will ensure he NEVER walks free in America again.”

Nino-Moncada was shot and injured by federal authorities whereas within the car parking zone of Adventist Health medical workplace constructing within the 10200 block of Southeast Main Street, in Portland.

A passenger in Nino-Moncada’s Toyota pickup, Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contrera was shot within the chest and stays hospitalized at Legacy Emanuel Medical Centers.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security officers reported that Border Patrol brokers have been conducting a focused automobile cease on the pair, who’re alleged to be concerned with the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua. Zambrano-Contrera was reportedly beforehand arrested in El Paso, Texas, and later did not report back to immigration authorities, in response to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon.

When brokers recognized themselves in the course of the automobile cease, the motive force allegedly “weaponized his vehicle” and tried to run over the federal brokers, in response to the DHS assertion. Nino-Moncada allegedly drove the automobile ahead and backward a number of instances after being instructed to exit the automobile, putting a Border Patrol automobile a number of instances, in response to a information launch.

The Border Patrol automobile reportedly sustained “serious damage,” together with a torn-off entrance bumper, destroyed headlights and harm to the driver-side entrance quarter panel and fender liner, the information launch acknowledged. The driver-side rear passenger door and quarter panel have been additionally reportedly dented.

In a post-incident interview, Nino-Moncada allegedly admitted that he deliberately rammed the Border Patrol automobile whereas trying to flee and stated he knew it was an immigration enforcement automobile, in response to a information launch.

This Portland taking pictures got here a day after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a lady in Minneapolis, resulting in nationwide protests and vigils.

The Oregon Department of Justice introduced final week it was going to conduct its personal parallel investigation of the taking pictures in Portland.

Over the weekend, the Minneapolis and Portland shootings sparked activism nationwide, together with lots of displaying up for days in Portland protesting the acts of violence and the Trump administration.

This story is growing and shall be up to date.