Overview
- A federal judge sentenced Robert Jacob Hoopes to 30 months in prison on Thursday and ordered three years of supervised release plus more than $8,000 in restitution.
- Prosecutors say Hoopes breached the ICE facility on June 14, 2025, threw a large rock that struck an ICE Special Response Team officer in the head and opened a gash above the eye.
- Hoopes pleaded guilty under a plea deal to aggravated assault of a federal employee with a dangerous weapon, a charge that carried more prison exposure than the sentence imposed.
- Investigators used surveillance video and commercially available facial‑recognition searches on a published photo to help identify Hoopes and arrest him in July 2025.
- The case is one of several nationwide prosecutions of people accused of attacking federal officers at immigration‑related protests and may signal firmer federal enforcement of such assaults.