James T. Jacks
Acting United States Attorney
Northern District of Texas

FEDERAL JURY CONVICTS INMATE FOR ASSAULTING FEDERAL OFFICER

LUBBOCK, Texas — An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, Texas, Ray Ramirez-Bueno, 45, was convicted by a federal jury in U.S. District Court in Lubbock yesterday of assaulting a federal officer, announced acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Ramirez-Bueno faces a maximum statutory sentence of eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine. U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings ordered a pre-sentence investigation with sentencing to be scheduled after that investigation is completed.

The government presented evidence at trial that on March 6, 2008, Correctional Officer Terry Curtis Lloyd was conducting a search of inmate lockers on the third floor of the Sunset Range at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring. When Officer Lloyd attempted to search inmate Ramirez-Bueno’s locker, Ramirez-Bueno slammed his right shoulder into the locker door, causing it to close on the officer’s right hand. Ramirez-Bueno refused to submit to hand restraints and assumed a fighting stance with corrections officers. Ramirez-Bueno later threatened to kill the officers if they touched him. Eventually, Ramirez-Bueno agreed to go to the Lieutenant’s office, where he submitted to hand restraints and was sent to the Special Housing Unit.

The case was investigated by the FBI and the Federal Bureau of Prisons - Office of Special Investigative Services. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ann Cruce-Roberts and Jeffrey R. Haag of the Lubbock, Texas, U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuted the case.

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