A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who was placed on leave by the federal agency after reportedly falsifying details of a nonfatal shooting in Minneapolis in which he was involved earlier this year, was arrested Friday in Texas.
Agents from the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General and the Texas Rangers arrested Christian Castro after he was located by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension earlier this week, according to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office in Minnesota.
The office issued an arrest warrant for the agent last week, according to The Hill.
Minnesota prosecutors claim that Castro was attempting to arrest a Venezuelan migrant, Alfredo Aljorna, following a car chase in January, amid the federal immigration enforcement crackdown in the state. When Aljorna ran into his home, Castro fired his gun into the front door, allegedly hitting Aljorna's roommate, Julio Sosa-Celis, in the leg. The shooting was not fatal.
Federal prosecutors previously charged Aljorna and Sosa-Celis; those charges were dropped after Minneapolis police footage revealed that Castro's claim to investigators that he had opened fire on the men as they hit him with a shovel was disproven.
The footage instead revealed what officials described as a different set of circumstances.
The American-Statesman reached out to the ICE and DHS for further comment on where authorities located Castro in Texas, and the circumstances of his arrest, but did not...
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who was placed on leave by the federal agency after reportedly falsifying details of a nonfatal shooting in Minneapolis in which he was involved ...