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„Deployed to Iraq as a member of the Indiana National Guard from November 2004 to Nov. 2005, Specialist Jonathan Ross of the 138th Signal Battalion earned the Army Commendation Medal,

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the Army Good Conduct Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal among others, according to the guard.

During his time in Iraq, Ross was a machine gunner on a combat logistical patrol team, court documents show.

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After he returned home, Ross joined the U.S. Border Patrol in 2007 in El Paso, Texas and worked for the agency until 2015 as a field intelligence agent who gathered and analyzed information on drug cartels and human traffickers.

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That year, Ross joined @ICEgov as a deportation officer based in Minnesota whose job, he testified in a case recently, was to identify and arrest “higher value targets.”

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Ross testified that he was also a member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force as well as a firearms instructor and field intelligence officer. Ross said some of his work involves investigating organized crime and working on national security cases.

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While Ross’ name has been widely reported, the DHS has, so far, refused to »expose the name of this officer«,

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DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. But the agency has confirmed that Ross was seriously injured in June while trying to arrest an immigrant who had refused to get out of his car.

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Court records viewed by @NBCNews revealed that the sequence of events that left Ross bloodied and bruised bore some similarities to the scenario that ended with Good’s death.

In both cases, Ross was confronting a driver at the wheel of a vehicle.

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In the June incident, Ross broke the window of a car when the driver refused to exit the vehicle and then found himself being dragged at least 50 yards when the driver hit the gas.

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– »I was yelling at him to stop« – Ross testified of Robert Muñoz-Guatemala, who was found guilty last month of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous or deadly weapon. “Over and over and over again at the top of my lungs.”

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Ross said in his testimony that he feared for his life and fired his Taser repeatedly at Muñoz-Guatemala.

– »It didn’t appear that it affected him at all« – Ross said.

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After Ross fell from Muñoz-Guatemala’s car, he was in »excruciating« pain, he said. He needed 33 stitches across all of his wounds [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6].

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Seven months after the dragging incident, Ross was on the job again in Minneapolis when he came across Good, a 37-year-old mother and U.S. citizen [7].”

Jan. 10, 2025

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[1] @StarTribune archive.ph/XNM1T

[2] @AP apnews.com/article/immigr…

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[3] @Newsweek newsweek.com/jonathan-ross-…

[4] @GuardianUS theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

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[6] advocate.com/news/who-is-jo…

[7] @CNN edition.cnn.com/2026/01/09/us/…

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