Minnesota Man of the Week [found guilty]
It’s only Wednesday morning, but I’m going out on a limb and awarding Minnesota Man of the Week honors to Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, age 40, of Mexico.
Munoz is on trial this week for assaulting a federal officer, a case arising out of a June 2025 incident in Bloomington. Quoting from the original DHS press release,
Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced federal law enforcement arrested Roberto Carlos Munoz-Guatemala, a serial criminal illegal alien, after he dragged an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer 50 yards with his car in Bloomington, Minnesota, trying to evade arrest.
ICE was there to pick up Munoz on charges of illegal immigration (yes, that’s a crime). As the victim in his underlying felony conviction was his 16-year-old stepdaughter, Munoz was our original Minnesota Dad.
Of the more than 100 Minnesota Men we’ve been tracking in 2025, Munoz is the first to take his case to a jury trial. The trial began on Monday at the federal courthouse in downtown St. Paul.
Owing to other obligations, I have been unavailable to attend the trial in person. So far, I have located no local media coverage of the event. Court records indicate that the prosecution presented its witnesses and rested its case yesterday. Apparently, Munoz then took the stand in his own defense, with the help of a Spanish-language interpreter.
In pre-trial filings, Munoz telegraphed that his defense would offer that he was the assault victim during an attempted carjacking by uniformed federal officers.
We’ll see how that plays with the jury.
[Update: The trial resumed this morning.. The jury found Munoz guilty as charged. The U.S. Attorney issued a press release.]
Sentencing will occur at a later date.
Given the prominence of ICE operations in the news this week, both locally and nationally, we have very little media coverage of the trial or verdict. The Star Tribune ran a piece,
Jury convicts man of dragging federal officer with car during Bloomington traffic stop.
The always-alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 TV put out a video,
So far, that seems to be it for news coverage of what should also be national story. Alas, it cuts against the current narrative.