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 39 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.
The trial was scheduled to resume this morning. I’ll update this post with any new developments.
