A Miami judge has issued an arrest warrant for former Cuban President Raúl Castro, finding probable cause that he conspired to commit first-degree murder in the 1996 shootdown of two civilian aircraft that killed four men.
The warrant, signed Friday by 11th Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Ariana Fajardo Orshan, marks a separate state-level effort to prosecute Castro, 95, months after federal authorities indicted him over the same incident, the Miami Herald reports.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement helped secure the warrant, which alleges that Cuban intelligence operatives working in Miami and Key West participated in the conspiracy…