>Remember when people were saying she was going to jail as an Antifa terrorist?Federal prosecutors are expected to dismiss criminal charges against Marimar Martinez, who was charged with assaulting federal immigration agents, one of whom shot her multiple times during a vehicle incident in Brighton Park last month.
In a one-page motion filed Thursday morning, assistant U.S. attorneys Ronald DeWald and Aaron Bond said they “respectfully (move) this Court to dismiss the indictment” against Martinez and another man, Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, who were each charged in October following the shooting at 39th Street and Kedzie.
U.S. District Judge Georgia Alexakis granted that motion during a brief hearing Thursday afternoon.
“I’m just grateful for everything,” Martinez told reporters in the lobby of the Dirksen Federal Building following the hearing. “I’m just happy, I’m excited.”
Prosecutors in court Thursday confirmed the case would be dismissed with prejudice, meaning the criminal charges against Martinez and Ruiz cannot be refiled at a later date.
No additional explanation for the sudden dismissal was provided.
Following the shooting, texts from the Border Patrol agent who fired at Martinez revealed he apparently bragged about the shooting to others, stating in one message that he’d “fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.”
Joseph Fitzpatrick, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, on Thursday said the office is “constantly evaluating new facts and information” relating to the cases and investigations that arose out of “Operation Midway Blitz” — the enhanced immigration efforts undertaken by the Trump administration in Chicago in recent months.
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