SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man was charged Thursday with attacking his probation officer during an escape attempt.
It's the second time Sergio Lopez Ramirez, 43, has been accused of injuring an officer while trying to get away.
On June 25, 2025, two Adult Probation and Parole agents were transporting Lopez to the Salt Lake County Jail when the outside gates were malfunctioning. While the agents got out of their car to help jail staff, Lopez "slipped his handcuffs to the front of his body, and he began hitting and kicking the back window in an attempt to escape," according to charging documents. Lopez then allegedly used the light bar to break the back window.
One agent was hit in the face and in the eye by shards of glass and "suffered a cut on his right cornea," the charges state.
Lopez was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with aggravated assault targeting law enforcement, a first-degree felony; attempted aggravated escape, a second-degree felony; and causing property damage, a third-degree felony.
He made headlines for a similar incident in 2015 when West Valley police found him on the top of a strip mall at 3974 W. 4100 South. While attempting to take him into custody, Lopez caused one officer to fall 10 feet off the roof. The officer suffered minor injuries.
Lopez was convicted in that case of attempting to make a terroristic threat for claiming he had a grenade in his hand, and assault on an officer.
