Colorado Newsline: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer is facing charges of assault and criminal mischief in Colorado state court after an investigation into an October 2025 incident in Durango in which videos show he seized and threw a demonstrator’s phone and pushed her to the ground.

Officer Nicholas Rice was charged Tuesday with assault in the third degree and criminal mischief, 6th Judicial District Attorney Sean Murray said in a press release. Rice is summoned to appear in La Plata County court next month.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation conducted the probe into the incident, which occurred outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Durango in the early-morning hours of Oct. 28 and was captured on multiple videos. The overnight protest by several dozen demonstrators followed ICE’s arrest the previous morning of a man, Fernando Jaramillo-Solano, and his two children, while he drove them to school.

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