EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A federal magistrate has denied bond to an El Paso resident who says he was singled out by border agents after talking to a migrant who asked him for water. Larry Maldonado, 35, was arrested March 7 on charges of assault on a federal officer stemming from a confrontation with U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Ysleta Station. Maldonado, a U.S. citizen, found himself confined at the immigration facility after an altercation with a different group of agents earlier that day near the corner of Independence Drive and Enrique Lane in El Paso’s Lower Valley. Documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas show the agents had been advised by radio that three migrants had just come over the border wall. They received physical descriptions and proceeded to a residential area less than 1,000 feet from the Rio Grande. Man allegedly assaults, calls CBP officers 'taritors' They saw two men allegedly walking in a hurry. “One of the subjects appeared clean and neat. The second subject appeared to be wet, muddy, dirty and matched the description provided” by radio dispatch, the agents are quoted in court documents as saying. One of the agents parked at the intersection and got out to question the two men. But the one who appeared "clean and neat" allegedly became hostile and told the agent, in English, he could not be questioned or detained. Charges stand against migrants accused of assaulting detention officers “I speak English,” the man allegedly told the agent, who pressed him regarding his citizenship. “(I am) from here. I was born in Thomason. I’m a U.S. citizen,” the man later identified as Maldonado told the agent, according to court records. Thomason is the former name of El Paso’s University Medical Center. Assaults on Border Patrol agents on the rise in New Mexico The agent then turned his attention to the other man, who initially admitted he was from Mexico. But after Maldonado allegedly pulled out his cellphone and began recording the agent, the second man changed his answer and told the Border Patrol agent in Spanish, “I am from here, you cannot detain me,” court records show. Both men turned around and began to walk away; the agent called for backup and reported the subjects were in flight. Man allegedly kicks CBP supervisor three times in face at port of entry More Border Patrol agents arrived, surrounded the pair and told them to raise their arms. The migrant later identified as Antonio Espinoza Jaquez, a Mexican national, allegedly admitted he had just entered the United States illegally. He was apprehended. The agents turned to Maldonado and placed him in handcuffs “after a brief struggle,” court records show. Border Patrol chief tells agents to ‘watch your 6’ following attack It was at the Ysleta Border Patrol Station that the alleged assault occurred. Maldonado allegedly resisted being fingerprinted and yelled at agents that he was good at remembering faces. “I will remember your face and find you later,” he yelled, according to a federal complaint affidavit filed March 10 by an FBI agent who reviewed accounts of the incident. After the fingerprinting, the U.S. citizen was placed in a cell at the immigration station and allegedly tried to disassemble a cot and keep a leg as a weapon. Several agents rushed in, restrained him with handcuffs and leg shackles and moved him to another cell where he tried to break the glass with his handcuffs, the complaint affidavit states. Guatemalans charged in I-35 road rage incident FBI agents were called to the Ysleta station and interviewed Maldonado. He told them a man he did not know came to his driveway and asked him for a glass of water. He said the man asked him for directions and he decided to walk with him. It was then that the Border Patrol came, which Maldonado told the FBI made him angry because they were “accusing him of something he didn’t do.” Maldonado allegedly stated he resisted when the Border Patrol tried to fingerprint him and that he “did fight” with the agents but did not hit any of them. Shots fired at agents, Border Patrol says He was charged with misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. During a detention hearing in U.S. District Court last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert F. Castaneda decided to hold Maldonado without bond. Court documents show prosecutors alleged Maldonado has a prior criminal history and poses a “serious risk” of endangering the community. Visit the BorderReport.com homepage for the latest exclusive stories and breaking news about issues along the U.S.-Mexico border A jail records search shows that an individual with the same name, date of birth and alias (Larry Galindo) as the person arrested on March 7 also was arrested in El Paso County in 2017 on a charge of resisting arrest, harassment of a public servant and possession of drug paraphernalia. Maldonado is set for a status conference in Castaneda’s courtroom on March 27. ...read more read less