ICE officer pleads not guilty to charges he lied to the FBI about nonfatal Minneapolis shooting
Castro is accused of lying about a January shooting after prosecutors said he fired through a Minneapolis home door and hit a 24-year-old man.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro appeared in U.S. District Court on Friday to face six federal counts of making false statements about a January shooting in Minneapolis.
- Prosecutors allege Castro shot 24-year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg while firing through a Minneapolis home's front door, then falsely reported being attacked with a broom handle and a snow shovel.
- Minnesota authorities pursued extradition after charging Castro in May, but Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott refused to sign the warrant; the Department of Homeland Security called the prosecution "unlawful and nothing more than a political stunt."
- After appearing in state court on Thursday, Castro was released from custody and subsequently turned himself in to federal authorities to face the separate federal indictment.
- Defense attorney Daniel Gerdts declined to comment following Thursday's hearing, though Castro has pleaded not guilty to all six counts and faces his next federal hearing on October 28.
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ICE officer accused of lying to FBI about Minneapolis shooting pleads not guilty
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of lying to the FBI about a January shooting in Minneapolis pleaded not guilty Friday to six federal counts of making materially false statements.Christian Castro appeared in a federal courtroom in St. Paul after prosecutors accused him of shooting 24-year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg through the front door of a Minneapolis home during Operation Metro Surge.Castro told investiga…
A FORMER U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied about the attack to justify the Minneapolis shooting. The videos do not confirm his story.
ICE agent pleads not guilty to lying to FBI about Minneapolis shooting
The top prosecutor from Minnesota's Hennepin County announced the arrest Friday of an ICE officer charged for shooting a Venezuelan-born man in January at the height of a deadly immigration blitz launched by the Trump administration.
ICE agent pleads not guilty to lying about Minneapolis shooting
By Jonathan Allen Sept 18 (Reuters) - A US immigration agent pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal charges of lying to the FBI that he was attacked before shooting a Venezuelan man in the leg in Minneapolis at the height of President Donald Trump's d...
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Florida PhoenixICE agent Christian Castro released from Minnesota state custody, pleads not guilty in federal court
Christian Castro, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot a man through the door of a north Minneapolis home in January, was released Thursday evening on conditional bail from Hennepin County Jail, where he was held for state-level charges. At his first appearance at federal district court in St. Paul on Friday for […]
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