Hammer-Wielding Illegal Immigrant With Rap Sheet Attacks Female Jogger In Texas

A hammer-wielding illegal immigrant with a rap sheet attacked a woman jogging on a path in Plano, Texas.

Mexican illegal immigrant Sergio Noe de Nova Duarte, 17, struck the female victim with the hammer while she was on a jog in Bob Woodruff Park on Thursday before fleeing the scene, local police said. He was later captured and charged with aggravated kidnapping and bodily injury.

The woman fought back as Duarte attacked her, according to CBS News. She was later treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

“Given the nature of this incident and this attack, this could have gone so much worse,” Plano Police Detective Alexandra Cole said. “Luckily, she was brave enough to be able to fight her attacker off in order for this not to be an even more heinous crime than it already was.”

But it wasn’t Duarte’s first rodeo.

He was arrested last year for burglary and larceny, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement later took him into custody, but the Biden administration ultimately released him.

Now, the Trump administration is working to ensure he stays in custody.

“This criminal illegal alien should have never been loose in our communities to attack this woman jogging in a park with a hammer,” Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Monday.

“Following this illegal alien’s arrest in 2024, the Biden administration released this criminal illegal alien back into our communities. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE lodged an arrest detainer to ensure this criminal illegal alien is NEVER able to prey on innocent women in our country again,” she said.

Duarte came to the United States on a B2 tourist visa in 2016, but failed to leave the country by the required date, according to Homeland Security.