A dangerous precedent may have been set in the Emerald City after a Mexican national on trial for four alleged felonies against federal agents was acquitted of all charges.
Efforts across the country to restore national sovereignty through mass deportations have been met with the typical wailing and gnashing of teeth common among leftists, but also dramatic upticks in violence against federal immigration officers. Amid attempts to paint an anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (D) activist as a victim after she was fatally shot while driving her vehicle at a federal official, a Seattle jury acquitted an illegal alien who’d similarly hospitalized multiple officials as he attempted to flee arrest.
“HOLY SMOKES,” reacted Florida’s Voice News’ Eric Daugherty. “A left-wing Seattle jury has now ACQUITTED an illegal alien who charged his vehicle at ICE agents and hospitalized them. Democrats are now hijacking the justice system, as if the judges weren’t bad enough. This is traitorous behavior.”
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. A left-wing Seattle jury has now ACQUITTED an illegal alien who charged his vehicle at ICE agents and hospitalized them.
Democrats are now hijacking the justice system, as if the judges weren’t bad enough.
This is traitorous behavior.pic.twitter.com/z4D3xKlkNZ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 16, 2026
The decision handed down on Jan. 9, 2026, acquitted Vivanco-Reyes of four felony counts of assaulting federal officers with a deadly weapon, a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, regarding his attempt to escape those officers on Camano Island during a second attempt to execute an immigration arrest warrant.
Court documents alleged that on June 6, 2025, federal agents wearing clearly marked body armor and traveling in unmarked vehicles had blocked the path of the illegal alien’s vehicle after a period of surveillance following a previous attempt to execute the warrant.
When one agent had partially exited a patrol vehicle with lights flashing, the prosecution alleged that Vivanco-Reyes accelerated, collided with the vehicle, and pinned the agent’s shoulder in the vehicle’s door.
The fleeing suspect then drove into another federal vehicle before crashing into a telephone pole, leaving the illegal alien allegedly attesting, “I f*cked up, I f*cked up,” as he was arrested. Originally charged with two counts, KOMO News indicated that the grand jury indictment had increased to four counts, with each one representing one of the officers involved in the incident.
The successful apprehension on Camano Island had followed a May 2025 attempt to execute a warrant against the Mexican national during which, after initially stopping, he allegedly sped off, nearly striking a pedestrian and vehicles that included a school bus, according to the prosecution. Federal officials had based the warrant on a 2019 felony conviction and a 2014 misdemeanor conviction
As reporter Katie Daviscourt indicated, the jury’s decision comes at a volatile time as federal agents have faced increased harassment, threats and actual violence, including numerous instances involving vehicles impeding their travel.
“Leftist activists are praising the acquittal, saying no Seattle jury will convict subjects accused of targeting ICE agents,” detailed Daviscourt. “They are calling for more attacks.”
NEW: A Seattle jury has acquitted a criminal illegal alien who rammed his vehicle at ICE agents during an operation last year.
Victor Vivanco-Reyes, a Mexican national convicted of drive-by shooting, accelerated his vehicle at ICE agents and intentionally collided head-on with… pic.twitter.com/WRXp9Am2uV
— Katie Daviscourt 📸 (@KatieDaviscourt) January 16, 2026
Meanwhile, the acquittal did not mean that the Mexican national was off the hook for being in the country illegally, as KING 5 Seattle reported. Vivanco-Reyes remains in an immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, with a bond hearing scheduled for February.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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