SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors in the Bay Area have charged a woman with biting an ICE deportation officer who was attempting to arrest her at the San Francisco International Airport, court records show.
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Ana Oliveira-Mendonca, 39, was at the airport with her fiance when ICE agents surrounded and attempted to arrest her on Sept. 15. But after being placed in handcuffs, she was still allegedly able to reach one of the officers’ arms with her mouth.
“You just bite me (sic),” the ICE officer allegedly exclaimed as she sank her teeth into his arm, according to the criminal complaint. Prosecutors have not released the officer’s name.
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The officer was treated at a hospital and given vaccines as a precaution, according to the complaint. Oliveira-Mendonca was release from jail on a $10,000 bond at her first court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero, records show.
The charge carries up to eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
It is one of several cases filed by the Bay Area’s U.S. Department of Justice wing against people who’ve allegedly attacked or vandalized ICE agents since the agency ramped up deportations during the second Trump administration. The most recent case to resolve ended last week with a not guilty verdict against a Pittsburg man charged for conduct during an anti-ICE protest. KQED reported the defense argued that the man’s alleged shoving of an ICE officer “wouldn’t even get a yellow card in a soccer game.”
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