HARDIN VALLEY, TN- WATE in Knoxville, Tennessee, reports that two more people have been charged in connection with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid conducted at a local construction site in January. The two are being accused of plotting to block the entrance to a construction site in an attempt to obstruct ICE.
In late January, an initial indictment was filed accusing Tyler Shane Wells, 33, of Morristown, and 18-year-old Alexander Bonilla-Servin of Syrna with using Bonilla-Servin’s pickup truck to impede ICE agents on January 13, 2026. In a superseding indictment filed last month, Omar Bonilla-Serna and Nicholas Foy Pastore were charged in connection with the same event.
The new indictment alleges the four men conspired with each other to “help conceal, harbor, and shield from detection” people who illegally entered the United States for financial gain. Counts four through nine of the indictment allege that the four worked in concert to knowingly “help conceal and hide” specific individuals in the country illegally.
Wells, Bonilla-Serna, and Bonilla-Servin are also accused of conspiring to prevent federal officers from performing their official duties, whereby Bonilla-Servin used his truck to block the only entrance to a construction site, preventing federal agents from entering.
The indictment alleges that Bonilla-Servin used the truck to “counter-surveil” ICE agents, and that on Jan. 13, he drove the truck into an ICE vehicle while it was occupied by ICE agents, injuring them. The indictments allege the suspects used the truck as “a dangerous and deadly weapon.” He is facing an additional charge for using the truck in this manner.
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