Court papers said that two suspects, Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, were charged.
The FBI arrested two people who allegedly drove vehicles into federal officials near Chicago, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Sunday evening.
The @FBI just arrested two individuals who were allegedly driving these vehicles and attacking our federal law enforcement officers.
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 6, 2025
They have been charged for assaulting federal officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon.
Attack our law enforcement, and this FBI will find you… https://t.co/iQ9wDeAzQh
In a statement on X, the FBI director said that two individuals “have been charged for assaulting federal officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon.”
“Attack our law enforcement, and this FBI will find you and bring you to justice,” he wrote.
While Patel did not name the suspects who were arrested, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said in court documents that Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, were “charged in federal court with using their vehicles to assault, impede, and interfere with the work of federal agents in Chicago.”
“After striking the agents’ vehicle, the defendants’ vehicles boxed in the agents’ vehicle,” the office said in its documents, adding that the “agent was unable to move his vehicle and exited the car, at which point he fired approximately five shots from his service weapon at Martinez.”
Martinez, who was allegedly armed with a semiautomatic weapon, drove off, but paramedics found her at a repair shop about a mile away from the scene, according to the office. An ambulance took her to a hospital, where her gunshot wounds were treated.
According to the criminal complaint released by the Justice Department, three Border Patrol agents were carrying out an operation in Oak Lawn, Illinois—a suburb of Chicago—and were followed by Ruiz and Martinez.
The two are accused of pursuing the federal agents’ vehicles and running stop signs and lights, and causing an agent to lose control of a government vehicle after they allegedly rammed their vehicle into it.
After the government vehicle stopped, the agents emerged before Martinez allegedly drove the vehicle at the agents, causing one to fire shots at her, the complaint stated.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement on Oct. 4 that it was forced to deploy special operations in Chicago.
The DHS accused Martinez and Ruiz of being “domestic terrorists” after the incident.
“The scene became increasingly violent as more domestic terrorists gathered and began throwing smoke, gas, rocks, and bottles at DHS law enforcement. Another domestic terrorist was arrested for assaulting CBP at the scene,” the agency said, accusing local Illinois officials of refusing to “allow local police to help secure the scene.”
