Erika Jasmin Lobato-Melendez sentenced to a year in prison for biting a Border Patrol agent.

A Salvadoran woman, Erika Jasmin Lobato-Melendez, 27, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent in May 2024 near the New Mexico-Mexico border. She bit an agent's forearm and resisted arrest during a group migrant crossing. After her release, she will be deported and under two years of supervised release. The FBI and Border Patrol investigated the assault.