The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Friday that the  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested a three-time previously deported illegal alien who allegedly used his vehicle to assault an ICE law enforcement officer in California.

The arrest stems from an August 31, incident in Martinez, California, in which Jesus Israel Garcia-Cobarruvias, an illegal alien from Mexico, allegedly accelerated his vehicle toward ICE officers, injured an officer, damaged a government vehicle, and then fled the area. The officer sustained non-life-threatening injuries but currently cannot walk without assistance due to the injury.

HSI agents arrested Garcia-Cobarruvias on September 17 in Martinez, California. During the arrest, he refused commands and agents used force to remove him from a vehicle and take him into custody.

"This criminal illegal alien represents the worst of the worst that the hardworking men and women of ICE are targeting and removing from our communities every single day,” said DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “This Department will not tolerate violent assaults on our brave law enforcement officers who keep us safe. DHS will hunt down and bring to justice anyone who engages in this dangerous behavior." 

Garcia-Cobarruvias has already been removed from the country THREE times and has a lengthy criminal history that includes convictions for burglary, obstruction, and domestic violence.