An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a man in the leg in north Minneapolis and then lying about the attack was arrested in Texas Friday morning, according to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office.
On Jan. 14, amid Operation Metro Surge, 52-year-old Christian Castro shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a Venezuelan national, criminal charges say. Castro was charged on May 18 with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime.
The charges triggered a nationwide warrant for Castro’s arrest, and Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigators tracked him down in Texas earlier this week. He was taken into custody by Department of Homeland Security agents and Texas Rangers…