A federal grand jury has indicted Ontario resident Carlos Jimenez on suspicion of assault on a federal officer with a sentencing enhancement of using a deadly weapon, three weeks after an officer shot Jimenez as he backed his car toward officers and then drove away.

Jimenez, 25, could face 20 years in federal prison if convicted as charged.

Jimenez, according to one of his attorneys, said he was making a three-point turn to drive away as ordered after he said one of the officers threatened him with a gun and pepper spray and told him, “Get the … out of here.”

Jimenez had pulled alongside the officers, who had made an unrelated immigration enforcement traffic stop on Vineyard Avenue around 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 30, and advised them that they were blocking a school bus stop where children wou

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