EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A federal judge has sentenced a Nogales, Arizona, resident to 32 months in a federal prison for pointing a loaded gun at a Border Patrol agent outside his home.

Tuesday’s sentencing of Erik Alberto Beal, 28, on a charge of assault on a federal officer with a deadly and dangerous weapon also comes with 36 months of supervised release and forfeiture of a Sig Sauer model P250 .45-caliber pistol.

Prosecutors dropped a second assault charge as part of a plea bargain.

The charges stemmed from an April 11, 2024, incident involving two Border Patrol agents chasing a migrant in the vicinity of Beal’s residence. The agents split up and were searching for the migrant when someone opened the side door of the residence and a pit bull came out toward one of the agents

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