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ICE agent Christian Castro, who shot and wounded Julio Sosa-Celis in January, made his first Minnesota court appearance Thursday, held on $200,000 bail with no plea entered yet on four assault charges.
- Surveillance video undercut Castro's original account of the shooting, leading prosecutors to drop charges against the two men he'd accused and instead charge Castro himself with assault and lying to investigators.
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Castro's case now runs on two tracks — a Hennepin County assault prosecution and a federal false-statements indictment — with his next hearing set for Friday in St. Paul.
MINNEAPOLIS — Eight months after firing the shot that wounded 24-year-old Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis inside a north Minneapolis duplex, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro walked into a Hennepin County courtroom Thursday afternoon for the first time since state prosecutors charged him in the case. The 52-year-old appeared roughly a day after Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents took him into custody near downtown Minneapolis, according to KSTP and MPR News.
