LOS ANGELES – Two South Los Angeles residents are expected to plead guilty Monday to causing a car chase in which they blocked and followed immigration agents while they were performing their duties.

Gustavo Torres, 28, and Kiara Jaime-Flores, 34, are each set to enter a plea to one federal count of conspiracy to impede or injure officers.

According to an affidavit, early on Feb. 28, Homeland Security Investigations and U.S. Border Patrol agents executed search warrants at separate homes in Los Angeles, one of them in South Los Angeles. A small crowd began to gather outside the residence and some bystanders directed hostile remarks at the agents, who later got in their government vehicles and left the area, papers filed in L.A. federal court show.

At the intersection of 61st Street and

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