{"id":229,"date":"2026-05-30T15:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:38:39","slug":"ice-agent-arrested-in-texas-charged-with-lying-about-minneapolis-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"ICE Agent Arrested in Texas, Charged With Lying About Minneapolis Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with <\/span><\/i><i><span>a donation<\/span><\/i><i><span> of any size.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=227\">Disability Rights Are at Risk as 7 States Back Case Attacking Key Protections<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was arrested in Texas on Friday after he was charged by Minnesota officials for allegedly shooting a Venezuelan immigrant during an ICE operation in Minneapolis and lying about what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Castro, 52, was deployed as part of President Donald Trump\u2019s mass deportation push in the Twin Cities, dubbed \u201cOperation Metro Surge,\u201d and was charged by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty earlier this month with four counts of felony assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from the shooting of Venezuelan national Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis at his home on January 14 as ICE agents pursued his roommate, another Venezuelan immigrant named Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>The New York Times<\/em>, Castro was arrested Friday after being tracked down by investigators with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Texas Rangers and agents with the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General carried out the arrest, according to the Minnesota-based <em>Sahan Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s arrest is a critical step forward in our prosecution of Mr. Castro,\u201d Moriarty said. \u201cThe BCA\u2019s investigative work was instrumental in this process, and we\u2019re grateful for their collaboration as we pursue accountability for this incident on behalf of Mr. Sosa-Celis, his family, and our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sosa-Celis and Aljorna were originally charged by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), after Castro claimed that he had shot in self-defense when the men assaulted him with a broom and a shovel, claims that were parroted by then-Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=225\">Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d Has No Funds for Gaza Reconstruction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the charges were later dropped after video of the incident and an examination of X-ray evidence demonstrated that Castro\u2019s claims were false. Castro and another agent were subsequently placed on administrative leave by DHS while they were investigated internally for lying under oath.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Minnesota, we believe in equal justice under the law. That means nobody is above the law, including agents of the federal government,\u201d said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison following news of Castro\u2019s arrest on Friday. \u201cI am pleased to hear Christian Castro has been taken into custody and will stand trial for the crimes he allegedly committed in Minnesota. Justice demands no less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Castro is the second ICE agent to be charged by Moriarty\u2019s office for their role in Operation Metro Surge, which civil rights groups and Minnesota officials have characterized as a lawless immigration crackdown involving racial profiling, warrantless arrests, violent raids, and multiple shootings by federal agents.<\/p>\n<p>Another agent, Gregory Morgan Jr., was charged last month with two counts of felony second-degree assault after he allegedly pulled a gun on two local residents during a traffic stop. Morgan turned himself in to local authorities last week and was released on bond.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison also sued the Trump administration in March for refusing to cooperate with the state investigation into the shooting of Sosa-Celis, and other probes into the fatal shootings of two US citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Moriarty\u2019s office has not yet brought charges against ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Minneapolis mother Renee Good in January, or Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez in connection with the deadly shooting of Department of Veterans Affairs nurse Alex Pretti later that month.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=223\">Federal Judge Upholds Infamously Brutal Farm Labor at Angola Prison<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNobody is above the law,\u201d said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, \u201cincluding agents of the federal government.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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