A Pico Rivera man has been charged with conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer while Border Patrol agents arrested an undocumented immigrant in a Pico Rivera shopping center parking lot earlier this week.

However, the criminal complaint dated June 19 that includes a sworn statement by a Homeland Security Investigations agent doesn’t mention Adrian Andrew Martinez punching an agent, as federal officials alleged earlier this week. Nor is Martinez shown punching or hitting an agent on a security video from Aguas Tijuana’s Juice Bar, one of the stores at the center, though at times he’s not visible.

Martinez appeared in a Los Angeles federal court on Friday, June 20. A federal magistrate judge ordered him released on $5,000 bond, and no plea was taken, authorities said.

He is scheduled for a July 17 arraignment at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Los Angeles.

His attorney couldn’t be reached for comment on Friday afternoon.

The case stems from what happened June 17 in the parking lot on Washington Boulevard. Martinez, 20, works at the Walmart in the shopping center.

Nicholas DeSimone, the resident agent in Charge of the HSI Integrated Operations Group Task Force, wrote in the statement that on June 18 he reviewed video obtained via social media posts and through news media and discussed the incident with U.S. Border Patrol personnel.

Border Patrol agents entered the parking lot around 8:45 a.m., saw two people run away from them, he said, adding agents were able to arrest one who they determined was in the country illegally.

While agents were arresting that person, Martinez was driving nearby in a black sedan.

“Martinez stopped his vehicle, exited it, and confronted the agents. Several other individuals also stopped their vehicles and parked near (the) agents, partially blocking the lanes in the parking lot as the agents attempted to leave the area with the arrestee,”  DeSimone said. “The bystanders collectively honked at the agents and shouted at them, yelling at the agents to leave the area.”

The agents couldn’t leave because their white pickup was blocked by other vehicles belonging to Martinez and the bystanders, he said.

Martinez stood in front of the Border Patrol vehicle and at one point moved a trash can in front of it, DeSimone said.

Other Border Patrol agents arrived. About a minute later, he said, the Border Patrol vehicle was able to leave.

“Based on my review of the video footage and my conversations with USBP personnel, it appears that multiple individuals, including Martinez, were displeased with USBP’s presence and activities at the shopping center in Pico Rivera and acted in concert to interfere with the USBP agents in the discharge of their duties, including by temporarily blocking the USBP agents’ free passage and ability to depart the scene,” DeSimone said.

The video from Aguas Tijuana’s Juice Bar shows at the beginning, a white pickup can be seen following someone pushing a trash can. The man runs, and gets caught by one agent, who brings him back toward the pickup.

A black car pulls up and Martinez gets out. He walks up to the pickup. There are other vehicles that pull up near the white pickup. Martinez later puts the trash can in front of the pickup.

But the video also shows what DeSimone didn’t mention in his statement. One agent shoves the trash can, which falls, and then he shoves Martinez to the ground. Other agents approach Martinez, who gets shoved down again. Later, other agents wrestle Martinez to the ground, and they take him away.

Senator Bob Archuleta, D-Pico Rivera, said in a statement that he has spoken with Martinez’s mother and assured her he has put a team together to assist her family.

“The Martinez family has asked me to convey their gratitude for the outpouring of support from the public,” he said.

He submitted Martinez’s birth certificate to Sheriff’s officials and federal agencies to prove Martinez’s citizenship, and to request his immediate release, he said, adding an attorney has also been provided, pro bono, to work on the Pico Rivera man’s release from custody.

“There are a multitude of eyewitnesses who say Adrian was observing the actions of ICE and CBP agents during a work break in the business’ parking lot. These actions by the federal government raise serious civil rights concerns, including possible racial profiling and questionable procedures in detaining someone,” Archuleta said.

“These enforcement actions have instilled alarm throughout our community. No one should live in constant fear of being wrongfully targeted.”