ICE officer charged in nonfatal Minneapolis shooting during Operation Metro Surge
Prosecutors say video evidence contradicted the agents’ account, and federal charges against the Venezuelan man were later dismissed with prejudice.
- On Monday, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty charged ICE officer Christian Castro with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime in the January 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, issuing a warrant for his arrest.
- During the January 14 incident, a federal officer shot Sosa-Celis in the thigh after he and another agent chased a different man to the apartment duplex where Sosa-Celis lived.
- After a judge dismissed initial assault charges against Sosa-Celis and Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, the Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation into whether two immigration officers lied under oath, calling it a "serious federal offense."
- Minnesota leaders and the Trump administration have clashed over jurisdiction to prosecute officers for on-duty conduct, as Moriarty seeks new approaches to hold federal agents accountable in cases with "no modern precedent."
- Hennepin County continues investigating the Good and Pretti killings and sued the administration in March for evidence access during Operation Metro Surge, the national deportation campaign that brought thousands of officers to the region.
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The Hennepin County Prosecutor's Office in the state of Minnesota issued an arrest warrant against a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer accused of shooting a Venezuelan citizen during a migration operation in Minneapolis last January.
Already suspended from office in mid-February for lying under oath about an operation, a five-year-old ICE agent was charged on Monday with four counts of assault and one for false testimony, reports the local prosecutor "No absolute immunity for federal agents who commit criminal acts" in Minnesota, assures the prosecutor of Hennepin County. An American immigration police officer (ICE) was charged on Monday for having shot and wounded a Venezue…
2nd ICE Officer Charged in Minnesota Related to Operation Metro Surge
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has laid charges against a second U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer over a Jan. 14 shooting in Minneapolis that injured an illegal Venezuelan immigrant. Christian Castro, 52, was charged on May 18 with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime relating to the incident during Operation Metro Surge in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Moriarty alleged th…
An agent of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) faces four counts of assault during immigration operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is Agent Christian Castro, who, according to the prosecutors of the case, has a warrant for arrest. Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County Prosecutor, held a press conference at which he announced the charges against Castro, including charges of assault and false reporting of a crime for an operatio…
A U.S. Immigration Police (ICE) officer was charged on Monday for shooting a Venezuelan immigrant to a leg during an intervention near his home in Minneapolis, which was the epicenter of the protest against the methods of these federal agents.
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