LOS ANGELES — Two South Los Angeles residents pleaded guilty Monday to interfering with federal immigration officers by causing a car chase in which they blocked and followed the agents while they were performing their duties.

Gustavo Torres, 28, and Kiara Jaime-Flores, 34, each entered pleas to a misdemeanor count of obstruction, resistance or interference with a federal officer,

They could each face up to a year behind bars at sentencing March 2, prosecutors noted.

According to an affidavit, early on Feb. 28, Homeland Security Investigations and U.S. Border Patrol agents executed search warrants at separate homes in Los Angeles, one of them in South Los Angeles. A small crowd began to gather outside the residence and some bystanders directed hostile remarks at the agents, who later go

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