Ex-ICE agent charged over shooting is freed by Texas authorities
Christian Castro, accused of carrying out nonfatal shooting in Minnesota, walks free due to extradition lapse. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer charged with shooting a Venezuelan man and allegedly lying about it during an immigration raid in Minneapolis was released from a Texas jail a day after a federal judge refused to order his return to the US state of Minnesota.
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- Fact 1: The former ICE agent, Christian Castro, had been detained in a county jail in Texas since May, charged in connection with the nonfatal shooting of 24-year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis and hitting him in the leg when firing through the front door of his home during an immigration crackdown in Minnesota on January 14.
- Fact 2: ICE kills 26-year-old in Maine: What happened, and who else has ICE killed?
- Fact 3: Witnesses contest the Trump administration’s account of Texas ICE killing US border security chief withdrawing 700 immigration agents from Minnesota The immigration sweep was part of a mass deportation effort under United States President Donald Trump.
- Fact 4: Minnesota officials and the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension eventually detained him in Texas on May 29.
Christian Castro, accused of carrying out nonfatal shooting in Minnesota, walks free due to extradition lapse. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer charged with shooting a Venezuelan man and allegedly lying about it during an immigration raid in Minneapolis was released from a Texas jail a day after a federal judge refused to order his return to the US state of Minnesota.
The former ICE agent, Christian Castro, had been detained in a county jail in Texas since May, charged in connection with the nonfatal shooting of 24-year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis and hitting him in the leg when firing through the front door of his home during an immigration crackdown in Minnesota on January 14. ICE kills 26-year-old in Maine: What happened, and who else has ICE killed? Witnesses contest the Trump administration’s account of Texas ICE killing US border security chief withdrawing 700 immigration agents from Minnesota The immigration sweep was part of a mass deportation effort under United States President Donald Trump.
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