Suspected Smuggling Boat Captain Kneed Border Patrol Agent in Face: Authorities

Suspected Smuggling Boat Captain Kneed Border Patrol Agent in Face: Authorities
Wreckage and debris from a capsized boat washes ashore at Cabrillo National Monument near where a boat capsized just off the San Diego coast, in San Diego, Calif., on May 2, 2021. Denis Poroy/AP Photo
The Associated Press
Updated:

SAN DIEGO—A man accused of piloting a boat overloaded with illegal immigrants that crashed into rocks off San Diego’s coast and killed three people kneed a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the face who was trying to put a leg shackle on him on the beach, authorities said.

Investigators said in an affidavit filed Tuesday in federal court in San Diego that the agent was not seriously injured but the hit left a red mark on his forehead.