The woman arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in a chaotic scene in Fitchburg on Thursday morning has been accused of attacking her co-worker with a pair of scissors and a trash bin over the summer.

Juliana Milena Ojeda-Montoya was identified as the woman arrested by ICE on Kimball Street on Nov. 6, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official.

Ojeda-Montoya is originally from Ecuador and was “released into the country by the Biden administration in 2023,” the DHS spokesperson said.

She was arrested by local police in August and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after “she stabbed her coworker twice with a pair of scissors and then threw a trash barrel at her,” according to the spokesperson.

The exact location and timing of this reported incident in August is not clear. MassLive and the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office were not able to find record of that arrest in Fitchburg District Court records. The Fitchburg Police Department did not immediately respond to MassLive for comment on the August arrest.

During her detainment by ICE agents on Thursday, “Ojeda-Montoya resisted and agitators attempted to impede the arrest,” the spokesperson said.

Officers from the Fitchburg Police Department were called to the scene twice to “keep the peace” during Ojeda-Montoya’s detainment by ICE — first at 7:10 a.m. and again at 8:03 a.m., reporting that a crowd was gathering at the scene and the agents were in danger.

The local police department sent three officers to the scene, who “confirmed that a crowd was gathering and that the situation was hostile.”

“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.,” the statement from DHS read.

Many people detained by ICE do not have criminal records. The first “Operation Patriot” led to the arrest of nearly 1,500 people across Massachusetts in May, and many of those arrested did not have criminal records, according to The Boston Globe.

Gov. Maura Healey, who noted her experience as a prosecutor and the state’s attorney general, also said last month that the surge of immigration enforcement was not actually aimed at making Massachusetts safer.

“What we have seen from ICE and from the administration really isn’t about public safety, it’s about political theater,” Healey said. “It’s about a political power grab and an attempt to intimidate.”

ICE operations in Massachusetts have led to the arrest and detainment of civilians, not just criminals, Healey said.

“We’ve seen construction workers, nannies, landscapers, health care aids, these are the people who are being taken in these huge numbers, taken away from their families,” she said.

“When I have high school students being ripped off the streets in Massachusetts on their way to volleyball practice by ICE agents, something’s wrong.”

Witnesses of Ojeda-Montoya’s arrest on Thursday recounted a chaotic scene — and said that the man who was with her in the car had a seizure as agents tried to get to her.

Crystal Devoe, 46, lives on Kimball Street and told MassLive that ICE agents were parked right in front of her house on Thursday morning. She got a phone call at 7:30 a.m. about police officers outside her building, and she went downstairs to see what was happening.

Neighbors had gathered, and some were filming the ongoing situation with ICE.

Devoe’s daughter, Michele Devoe, 18, went outside to see what was happening and filmed the scene. She witnessed a man, a 2-year-old, and a woman, later identified as Ojeda-Montoya, being confronted by ICE agents inside a car.

“About 30 minutes of me being outside, one of the ICE agents climbed into the car and grabbed the man by his neck, causing him to seize,” Michele Devoe said.

The man was brought out of the car in handcuffs and put into a nearby ambulance, which did not leave the scene. He was then returned to his own vehicle “a little later,” the teenager said.

“I wasn’t sure what was going on, but I know that the ICE people were being nasty and mean,” Crystal Devoe said.

One person was speaking Spanish to the woman in the car, and one officer came out and said, “Do you want to repeat that in English now?” according to Crystal Devoe. She added that cars began lining up and blocking traffic.

“The guy kept saying there was a warrant out for [her], but he wouldn’t say what kind of warrant,” Devoe said.

“This isn’t a bad neighborhood. It’s not the greatest, I’ve only lived here a couple of months, but it’s scary knowing that if you’re not a citizen at any time, you can be pulled out of a car and arrested in front of your child,” Devoe said. “It was so sad. I had my daughter crying.”