A Florida Highway Patrol trooper, acting with federal immigration authority, was injured on Monday morning during a traffic stop in Plantation as he tried to handcuff a man, who then managed to briefly escape arrest.

Jonathan Hernandez Guzman, 29, of Stuart, is facing charges of aggravated battery on an officer, attempt to escape and resisting an officer with violence.

The FHP trooper pulled over a Ford F-150 pickup truck with a driver and five passengers inside shortly after 8 a.m. on westbound State Road 84, east of Southwest 136th Avenue, according to an arrest report. The report does not specify the original reason for the traffic stop.

Through FHP’s 287(g) agreement, which deputizes troopers to act with some federal immigration authority, the trooper determined that passenger Herna

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