Surveillance Video Shows Immigration Arrest in New Hampshire

Surveillance footage captured the dramatic immigration arrest of a Venezuelan citizen inside a New Hampshire courthouse shortly after he arrived for his court hearing.

Arnuel S. Marquez Colmenarez had arrived in court in time for the hearing in February, but his surprise arrest inside the court building caused him to miss the proceedings.

Surveillance footage shows two plainclothes federal agents trying to grab Colmenarez as he walked out of an elevator, sparking a foot chase the ended when they tackled him – with the one agent crashing into the feet of a man walking with a cane and knocking him violently to the ground.

The other man appears to writhe on the concrete floor in apparent pain as the agents pinned Colmenarez to the ground.

A Hudson police officer later rushes in and put his left knee on Colmenarez’s back as a U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent handcuffed him.

A spokesman for The New Hampshire Judicial Branch said court security officers were not involved in the arrest in any way.