An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of pointing a gun at people on a highway wants the criminal case moved out of state court and into the federal system, CBS News reported Wednesday, June 18.
The move is a legal maneuver that ICE agents and other federal officers sometimes use when they argue their actions — however disputed — were taken in the course of their official duties. Federal court, in those cases, can offer procedural advantages the state system doesn’t.
Details are spare. CBS News didn’t identify the agent by name, name the highway, or specify which state filed the charges the agent is now trying to transfer.
What the request signals, at minimum: the agent isn’t contesting the case quietly. Moving it to federal court would shift jurisdiction — and potentially the legal standards applied — before any trial begins.
Whether a federal judge will grant the transfer hasn’t been reported.
CBS News reported this story on June 18, 2026. Read the original report.
