On Friday, Bill Essayli, the Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central Region of California, announced the guilty verdicts of two women who stalked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer as he headed home after enforcement operations in Los Angeles. One woman was from suburban Riverside, CA, the other was from Aurora, CO, highlighting the loose network of ICE Watch adherents who often come across state lines for the sole purpose of targeting, harassing, and doxxing federal officers.
As Essayli said, "Peaceful protests are protected by the Constitution, political violence and unlawful intimidation are not."
GUILTY: A Los Angeles federal jury just returned guilty verdicts against two defendants for stalking an ICE deportation officer.
— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) February 28, 2026
Cynthia Raygoza, 38, of Riverside, and Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado, were found guilty today of stalking.
On August 28, 2025, Raygoza and… pic.twitter.com/4LkNkXmqDv
GUILTY: A Los Angeles federal jury just returned guilty verdicts against two defendants for stalking an ICE deportation officer.
Cynthia Raygoza, 38, of Riverside, and Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado, were found guilty today of stalking.
On August 28, 2025, Raygoza and Brown followed the victim from a federal building in downtown Los Angeles to his home.
The defendants livestreamed their pursuit on their Instagram accounts, provided directions as they followed the victim home, and encouraged viewers to share the livestream.
Upon arriving at the victim’s residence, the defendants shouted to bystanders while livestreaming that their “neighbor is ICE,” “la migra lives here,” and “ICE lives on your street and you should know.” They also shouted racial slurs at the victim’s wife. The victim’s children witnessed the incident.
Raygoza and Brown each face up to five years in federal prison at their June 8 sentencing hearing.
We thank the jury for bringing justice to these agitators who violated the law and endangered the safety of this federal officer and his family.
Peaceful protests are protected by the Constitution, political violence and unlawful intimidation are not.
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This is due process followed by swift justice.
Raygoza and Brown were first charged in September 2025. Raygoza was indicted in absentia because she fled and had yet to be found. Raygoza was tracked down in Louisiana, where she was arrested and extradited back to Los Angeles where she was placed into federal custody.
A federal grand jury has indicted three women accused of following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent home and posting his address on social media, the Department of Justice said Friday.
The women - Cynthia Raygoza, 37, of Riverside; Sandra Carmona Samane, 25, of Panaroma City; and Ashleigh Brown, 38, of Aurora, Colorado - are charged with one count of conspiracy and one count of publicly disclosing the personal information of a federal agent.
According to the DOJ press release, the women followed the ICE agent from downtown Los Angeles to his personal residence in late August 2025. These best and brightest of the Left tailed the agent to his home while Raygoza livestreamed it through Instagram, using the accounts “ice_out_of_la,” “defendmesoamericanculture,” and “corn_maiden_design". Once at the agent's home, the women shouted at bystanders: "La Migra lives here," saying that their "neighbor is ICE," and "ICE lives on your street and you should know."
During the livestream, Raygoza publicly disclosed the agent's home address to the Instagram audience, encouraging them to, "Come on down."
What is truly amazing is that they found a law-abiding and sane judge and jury to hear the full case without bias, and ultimately convict these miscreants. As Essayli noted, sentencing will occur on June 8. We will see if Raygoza and Brown receive the maximum penalty of five years in prison for their crimes. Now that we have entered the Find Out stage of these insane campaigns waged against federal officers, it is hopeful that we will not just see more justice meted out, but the unraveling of the people who finance these anti-ICE activists and their nefarious networks.
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