Miguel Mora Nunez was sentenced to 15 years in the shooting of off-duty Border Patrol officer Joshua Sinclair.

The 15-year term is the sentence on the federal count Mora Nunez admitted. It is not a judgment in the Manhattan attempted-murder case, which is still open. The New York Post reported Judge Loretta Preska imposed the maximum on that federal weapons count. Gothamist reported the plea was to illegally possessing ammunition. The state case returns in November.

The New York Post and Gothamist reported that on Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska sentenced Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez to 15 years in federal prison. The New York Post reported he is 22. Gothamist reported he is 23. Both outlets reported he pleaded guilty earlier this year to possessing ammunition while in the country illegally. The New York Post described that count as a federal weapons charge and the 15 years as the maximum on it. The Post, citing the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office, reported Mora Nunez and co-defendant Christhian Aybar-Berroa will be deported after the federal sentences. The Post reported Preska sentenced Aybar-Berroa, 23, to 12 years and seven months. Gothamist reported Aybar-Berroa's term as 12 and a half years. Those are the figures the two outlets published. The federal sentences are the judgment on the counts they admitted.

Prosecutors said Mora Nunez shot off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer Joshua Sinclair during a robbery in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan, beneath the George Washington Bridge. The New York Post placed the robbery just after midnight on July 20, 2025. Gothamist dated it July 19, 2025, shortly before midnight. Gothamist reported prosecutors said Mora Nunez had taken another woman's phone minutes earlier, stood less than two feet from Sinclair, and fired twice, hitting him in the face and arm, and that Sinclair fired his service weapon and hit Mora Nunez in the lower body. The New York Post reported Sinclair was shot in the face, returned fire, and struck Mora Nunez twice, and that Mora Nunez fled on Aybar-Berroa's motorbike. Gothamist reported Sinclair spent 12 days in a hospital. The New York Post reported prosecutors said he still has not returned to work and is undergoing facial surgeries. Those details are the prosecution account as the outlets reported it. They sit behind a plea to an ammunition count. They are not a trial finding on attempted murder.

The New York Post reported Mora Nunez apologized in Spanish and said, "I wish I could go back in time and avoid everything that has happened." Gothamist reported the same sentence and that he also apologized to his family. Gothamist reported defense lawyer Jarrod Schaeffer asked for six and a half to eight years, citing Mora Nunez's age and a history of trauma. The New York Post reported Preska said there is "an overwhelming need to send a message to people who come to the US to commit crimes," and that she was not confident he had learned to respect the law. The Post reported he still faces 25 years to life in a separate attempted-murder case brought by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, that both men have pleaded not guilty in that case, and that they are due back in November. The federal sentences do not decide those state charges. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.