In the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) employee Christian Castro pleaded not guilty to federal charges of making false statements to FBI investigators following a January shooting in Minneapolis. As The Hill reports, the 52-year-old Castro appeared before a magistrate judge in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was charged.
In early September, a federal grand jury charged Castro with six counts of making materially false statements to investigators. The case is linked to an incident on January 14 during ICE operations in Minneapolis, when a confrontation occurred between the officer and three men. One of them, a Venezuelan national, was shot in the thigh and hospitalized.
According to the prosecution, Castro falsely described the course of the confrontation to the FBI. The US Department of Homeland Security initially said that the officer, later identified as Castro, fired a “defensive shot” after being attacked with a snow shovel and a broom handle. However, as stated in court documents, the men threw down these items and ran to a neighboring apartment as soon as they saw his gun.
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