DETROIT - The U.S. government accused a Venezuelan immigrant of injuring two federal agents and grabbing one agent’s gun during an arrest outside a Michigan Sam’s Club earlier this month. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan filed the criminal complaint Tuesday, March 10 against Arnoldo Jose Marquez-Pulido, 33, a Venezuelan man who prosecutors say is not living in the country legally. The charges include assaulting, resisting and interfering with a federal officer on duty and being an illegal immigrant in possession of a gun. Although the federal government has said attacks against immigration agents have increased, this is the first time these types of charges have been announced by federal officials in Michigan during President Donald Trump’s second term. The 10-page complaint also offers rare insight into how federal agencies are enacting Trump’s goal to detain and deport millions of people. This escalated targeted enforcement has led to a surge of arrests as federal agents have focused on detaining immigrants within the country instead of at the border.Related: In a year, ICE arrested over 2,300 in Michigan – from teens at home to a dad getting coffeeThe vast majority of those arrested, however, have been immigrants without any criminal convictions. And of those that do, only 5% had violent convictions. There is no indication in the complaint that Marquez-Pulido has a criminal record. Despite that, U.S. District Court Judge David Grand ordered Marquez-Pulido be temporarily detained pending a bond hearing later this week. A federal community defender for the Eastern District of Michigan, who is representing Marquez-Pulido, did not respond to a request for comment. The arrestOn March 4, federal investigators said they were surveilling a Sam’s Club in Utica, about 30 miles north of Detroit, based on information that “illegal aliens” were working as delivery drivers there. They then spotted a car registered to Marquez-Pulido and discovered he was allegedly living in the country illegally. Marquez-Pulido was allowed to cross the U.S.-Mexico border under immigration parole in April 2024, court documents say. The Biden administration created a humanitarian parole program for Venezuelans fleeing crisis in their home country. But at a Dec. 16, 2024 court hearing, an immigration judge told Marquez-Pulido that he was in removal proceedings. When Marquez-Pulido drove out of the Sam’s Club parking lot, the federal agents said they followed him, attempting a traffic stop as he continued to “weave in and out of traffic.” But they eventually turned off their lights and sirens “to avoid a dangerous vehicle chase.”The agents say they then lost track of Marquez-Pulido and returned to Sam’s Club.Once they arrived, agents found Marquez-Pulido who allegedly started to run away. One agent tackled Marquez-Pulido, who “refused to comply with commands and began to fight with the special agent,” prosecutors say. He was accused of reaching for the agent’s gun and removing it from the holster. Marquez-Pulido then dropped it in the scuffle, according to the complaint. That brief handling of the gun prompted prosecutors to bring possession charges. Another task force agent recovered the gun from the ground, court documents say, and Marquez-Pulido was restrained. Federal prosecutors say one agent bruised his elbow and scraped his knees, hands and cheek. Another agent also bruised his knee. “Some say that enforcing our nation’s immigration laws is unfair because illegal aliens are all harmless. Today’s allegations break that narrative,” said U.S. Attorney Jerome Gorgon, who replaced a former President Joe Biden-era judge when he was appointed by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi last year“High speed flight from arrest, fighting federal agents, and grabbing an agent’s gun are not ‘harmless.’ And what’s ‘unfair’ is the fact that Americans pay the price for dangerous illegal aliens,” he said. Related: Dramatic video shows masked agents in Detroit break window, pull immigrant from carAlthough the Trump administration has said attacks against immigration officials are up 1,300%, an analysis of court records by NPR found the spike has not been that dramatic. It showed a 25% increase through mid-September last year, when compared to 2024. One of these cases recently fell apart because of “newly discovered evidence” that prompted the Justice Department to drop charges against two immigrants in Minnesota. Marquez-Pulido was arrested under “Operation Take Back America,” a Trump administration initiative that has deployed drug enforcement and violent task forces to conduct immigration enforcement. University of Michigan expanding immigration legal servicesHunger strike at Michigan ICE detention facility prompts calls for investigationFormer University of Michigan graduate student, instructor to be released from ICE custody