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Springfield drug defendant tackled by ICE agents outside courthouse
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A caravan emptied out Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who tackled a defendant outside a State Street courthouse Wednesday, according to the man’s lawyer and witnesses.
Video clips obtained by The Republican appeared to show a takedown between City Hall and the Roderick Ireland Courthouse, where Javier Serrano Pujols had been in the midst of an evidentiary suppression hearing earlier in the day.
Pujols, a Dominican national, is facing charges of trafficking in fentanyl and cocaine, carrying a dangerous weapon and driving without a valid license, according to court records. He pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in 2024 and had been released on conditions that year.
Video from Wednesday afternoon shows a handful of agents, some wearing vests marked “police,” tackle the man outside the courthouse while a woman who had accompanied Pujols to court shouted “careful!” and “peaceful!” in Spanish in the background.
Some agents were masked and some were not.
Kedar Ismail, an attorney for Pujols, said the incident occurred with no warning after testimony in a motion to suppress in Hampden Superior Court. For his part, Ismail believed he was gaining ground on prosecutors when Judge Jeffrey Trepani took the matter under advisement.
Agitated over the bum rush by federal agents, Ismail speculated authorities associated with the case may have called ICE.
“I mean, really? What else? What kind of coincidence is that?” Ismail said during an interview on Thursday.
A spokesperson for Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni did not respond to a call for comment.
The woman who accompanied Pujols to the court said he had been steadily attending court hearings for nearly three years in the open case, but yesterday ended in an ambush.
“We left only to find undercover ICE agents lying in wait at various points through the courthouse. They swarmed him as though he were a criminal. It appears the information was leaked from the court itself,” the woman said.
While ICE arrests and sweeps have slowed since Alex Pretti and Renee Good were killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis earlier this year, immigration stings still remain a priority for the administration.
Video clips obtained by The Republican appeared to show a takedown between City Hall and the Roderick Ireland Courthouse, where Javier Serrano Pujols had been in the midst of an evidentiary suppression hearing earlier in the day.
Pujols, a Dominican national, is facing charges of trafficking in fentanyl and cocaine, carrying a dangerous weapon and driving without a valid license, according to court records. He pleaded not guilty at an arraignment in 2024 and had been released on conditions that year.
Video from Wednesday afternoon shows a handful of agents, some wearing vests marked “police,” tackle the man outside the courthouse while a woman who had accompanied Pujols to court shouted “careful!” and “peaceful!” in Spanish in the background.
Some agents were masked and some were not.
Kedar Ismail, an attorney for Pujols, said the incident occurred with no warning after testimony in a motion to suppress in Hampden Superior Court. For his part, Ismail believed he was gaining ground on prosecutors when Judge Jeffrey Trepani took the matter under advisement.
Agitated over the bum rush by federal agents, Ismail speculated authorities associated with the case may have called ICE.
“I mean, really? What else? What kind of coincidence is that?” Ismail said during an interview on Thursday.
A spokesperson for Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni did not respond to a call for comment.
The woman who accompanied Pujols to the court said he had been steadily attending court hearings for nearly three years in the open case, but yesterday ended in an ambush.
“We left only to find undercover ICE agents lying in wait at various points through the courthouse. They swarmed him as though he were a criminal. It appears the information was leaked from the court itself,” the woman said.
While ICE arrests and sweeps have slowed since Alex Pretti and Renee Good were killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis earlier this year, immigration stings still remain a priority for the administration.
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