Russian shot at border pleads guilty to illegal re-entry
Border Crime
by: JACQUES BILLEAUD, Associated Press
Posted: Apr 21, 2021 / 10:14 AM GMT-0600 / Updated: Apr 21, 2021 / 10:14 AM GMT-0600
PHOENIX (AP) — A Russian immigrant who once staged a monthlong hunger strike at an Arizona detention center and was shot several months later during a struggle with a federal agent near the Mexican border has pleaded guilty to illegally re-entering the United States after he was deported.
Evgenii Glushchenko acknowledged during a court hearing Tuesday in Tucson that he illegally crossed the border east of Lukeville, Arizona, in November 2019. He was shot in the thigh by a Border Patrol agent who tried to apprehend him.
His plea agreement calls for a sentence of time already served and said a charge of assaulting a federal agent against Glushchenko will be dismissed at sentencing, which is scheduled for June 29.
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