WASHINGTON: A US immigration agent was arrested in Texas on Friday, nearly two weeks after a Minnesota prosecutor charged him with assaulting a Venezuelan man in a non-fatal shooting in Minneapolis this year.
Christian Castro, an agent with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, faces four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime for shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg on January 14, at the height of President Donald Trump’s aggressive and hotly protested deportation surge in Minnesota.
Investigators from Minnesota’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension found Castro in Texas and traveled there, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, the chief state prosecutor in Minneapolis, said in a statement.
