DHS alleges criminal illegal alien 'rammed law enforcement' in California operation, agent fired weapon

A national agent opened occurrence successful confederate California Wednesday aft a transgression amerciable migrant "weaponized his conveyance and rammed instrumentality enforcement" during an effort to evade arrest, the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News Digital. 

A spokesperson said the incidental happened Wednesday greeting successful Compton arsenic DHS instrumentality enforcement officers were conducting a targeted cognition "to apprehension a convulsive transgression amerciable alien from El Salvador, William Eduardo Moran Carballo, who is progressive successful a quality smuggling cognition and has 2 anterior arrests for inflicting corporal wounded connected a spouse oregon cohabitant." 

"In a unsafe effort to evade arrest, this transgression amerciable alien weaponized his conveyance and rammed instrumentality enforcement. Fearing for his beingness and safety, an cause fired antiaircraft shots," the DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital successful a statement.  

"The transgression amerciable alien was not deed and attempted to fly connected foot. He was successfully apprehended by instrumentality enforcement. The amerciable alien was not injured, but a CBP serviceman was injured," the spokesperson added.

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A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Fox News Digital connected Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, that, "In a unsafe effort to evade arrest," a "criminal amerciable alien weaponized his conveyance and rammed instrumentality enforcement" successful Compton, Calif. (KTTV)

DHS besides described the concern arsenic "evolving" and said an migration justice had issued Carballo a last bid of removal successful 2019. 

"These unsafe attempts to evade apprehension person surged since sanctuary politicians, including Governor Newsom, person encouraged amerciable aliens to evade apprehension and provided guides advising illegal aliens how to admit ICE, artifact entry, and defy arrest," the DHS spokesperson said. "Our officers are present facing a 3,200% summation successful conveyance attacks."

A conveyance is seen damaged pursuing the reported incidental during a DHS cognition connected Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, successful Compton, Calif.  (KTTV)

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told Fox News Digital that it was alert of the incident, which happened successful the 2400 artifact of 126th Street successful unincorporated Los Angeles. 

A transgression amerciable migrant weaponized his conveyance against instrumentality enforcement, according to DHS.  (KTTV)

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"At astir 7:25 a.m. Century Station deputies were requested to supply extracurricular perimeter postulation control. The Sheriff’s Department was not straight progressive successful the incident," the section told Fox News Digital. 

Fox News Digital's Adriana James-Rodil contributed to this report.