The FBI is providing a $50,000 reward for assist in capturing and convicting Elpidio Reyna, who stands accused of hurling rocks at police automobiles throughout the weekend’s unrest in Los Angeles.
Mr. Reyna has additionally been added to the FBI’s Most Wished checklist.
Authorities launched video of the rock-throwing assault exhibiting a person sporting a motorbike helmet standing on the aspect of a street pelting rocks at shut vary into the home windows of Border Patrol automobiles as they convoyed by him.
The FBI mentioned an agent was injured throughout the assault.
Homeland Safety praised the reward supply.
“Elpidio Reyna threatened the lives of federal regulation enforcement by throwing rocks and explosives at their automobiles,” mentioned Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Our message to the LA rioters: you’ll not cease us or sluggish us down.”
Mr. Reyna’s felony file contains arrests for housebreaking, medicine, driving underneath the affect and driving on a suspended license.
Federal prosecutors have introduced prices in opposition to two different males for possessing Molotov cocktail firebombs on the protests, and two others for assault on federal officers.
