Anti-ICE Protester Who Threw Rocks at CHP Officers

The Find Out section continues for the Anti-ICE protesters who wreaked havoc, broken property, and endangered law enforcement in Downtown Los Angeles last June. In 2025, at the peak of the Anti-ICE protests, 5 mind trusts joined together to throw rocks, particles, and lit fireworks (that are unlawful in L.A. County) over the 101 Freeway overpass in Downtown L.A., while the California Highway Patrol (CHP) was holding level on the freeway below. One can only think about the havoc this would create, not to point out the potential for injury and death.

As testimony from the prosecutor’s sentencing memorandum detailed:

“This civil disorder stood apart in its magnitude,” prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. “A sergeant in the California Highway Patrol with nearly three decades in law enforcement wrote a statement about how this incident stood apart and the impact it had on him and his son. His experience underscores how violent this incident became and the deep toll it took on all law enforcement present.” 

On Tuesday, one miscreant’s Find Out moment arrived. Ismael Vega was sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison, and ordered to pay a hefty amount in restitution.

From a Central District of California Release No. 26-125, sent via email:

A man from the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for throwing rocks and ignited debris at California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers trapped underneath a downtown Los Angeles freeway overpass – with a CHP vehicle set ablaze during a violent anti-immigration law enforcement protest last year, the Justice Department announced today.

Ismael Vega, 42, was sentenced on Monday by United States District Judge John F. Walter, who also ordered him to pay $253,415 in restitution.

Vega pleaded guilty on April 29 to one count of obstructing, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder.

First Assistant United States District Attorney Bill Essayli took to X to applaud the sentencing.

Ismael Vega, 42, of Westlake, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for violently attacking CHP officers during an anti-immigration law enforcement riot in downtown Los Angeles last year.

On June 8, 2025, Vega threw rocks and dropped burning debris from the Main Street… pic.twitter.com/FdWvzpY5rk

— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) July 28, 2026

Ismael Vega, 42, of Westlake, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for violently attacking CHP officers during an anti-immigration law enforcement riot in downtown Los Angeles last yr.

On June 8, 2025, Vega threw rocks and dropped burning particles from the Main Street 101 Freeway overpass in DTLA onto a CHP vehicle as officers have been trapped below, setting the vehicle ablaze and creating a substantial risk of death or severe injury.

Vega pleaded guilty on April 29 to obstructing and interfering with law enforcement and has been ordered to pay $253,415 in restitution. This incident stood out during a time of monumental violence against law enforcement.

Those who assault our courageous officers defending public security will face federal prison time for their crimes. Let this be a warning to others who assume they’ll act without penalties.

Read More: In Los Angeles and Portland, Anti-ICE Agitators Are Currently in the ‘Find Out’ Stage

Go Time: Feds Run SoCal Pre-Dawn Raid, Nab Anti-ICE Activists Who Attacked During Pot Farm Operation

As PinkState reported, a number of arrests have been made in July 2025, in connection with the raid at the Glass House Farms hashish facility in Santa Barbara, including anti-ICE protesters who assaulted ICE brokers. However, in April, a federal jury acquitted Jonathan Caravello, a professor at California State University, Channel Islands, who was charged with assault in that incident. The evidence compiled by the FBI, with a heavy raise from CHP and the Los Angeles Police Department, against Vega ensured an hermetic prosecution. Vega saved taxpayers the money by pleading guilty, and his long sentence is justice being served. 

According to his plea settlement, during the night of June 8, 2025, two days after violence erupted against federal brokers imposing U.S. immigration legal guidelines, Vega was half of a large group of protesters on the Main Street overpass above U.S. Highway 101 in downtown Los Angeles. These protesters picked up particles – including cardboard and vegetation – and fireworks, lit them on fire and dropped them over the freeway overpass’s railing, aiming for a close by CHP vehicle, which was within ft of CHP officers trapped beneath the overpass.

Vega admitted in his plea settlement that he knew the officers have been under the freeway overpass and that the objects thrown and burning particles dropped onto a vehicle created a substantial risk of death or severe bodily injury to the officers.

Vega didn’t just throw harmful objects and then conceal his arms. The plea settlement outlined that at a number of instances Vega labored to assist his fellow protesters in lighting particles around the freeway on fire, and then personally set a large piece of cardboard ablaze, and waited until a CHP vehicle was in line with the overpass before he launched it onto the hood of the car. Vega’s fellow mind trustee and co-defendant, Yachua Mauricio Flores, then poured accelerant onto the car in order to increase the flames.

Vega was next to co-defendant Flores and used his arms to movement in direction of and gesture at the flames.

Vega also picked up and threw a number of rocks at law enforcement officers as these officers tried to clear the overpass. He additional admitted that he knowingly engaged in that habits intending that it hinder, impede, and intrude with the law enforcement officers and their duties.

Vega’s buddy Flores is scheduled to be sentenced on August 3, and faces a most of 5 years in federal prison. The lead defendant and alleged instigator, Adam Charles Palermo, is scheduled to be sentenced on December 14, where he faces a most of 20 years in federal prison.

These unhealthy actors must be held as object classes, because this sort of training is sorely needed.  

Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do every part they’ll to intrude with and threaten ICE brokers imposing our immigration legal guidelines.

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