ICE Agent Faces Criminal Charges, Arrest Warrant in Minnesota

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent has been charged and faces a warrant for his arrest, over the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis in January, officials in Minnesota announced Monday.

The non-fatal shooting happened in the days between the deadly incidents involving U.S. citizens Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, and the move by Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty comes after local authorities have struggled to seek prosecutions for the federal agents connected with their deaths.

Moriarty charged Christian Castro with four counts of second-degree assault and one of falsely reporting a crime in connection with the January 14 incident. A warrant was issued for his arrest.

“There's no modern precedent for what happened to the people here in Minnesota,” Moriarty said at a press conference. “So it requires a lot of us to dig in and look at ways to hold people accountable that we probably never thought we would be looking at in our careers.”

Newsweek reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment via email Monday afternoon.

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Castro was charged in connection with the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis on January 14, 2026.

The agent and another officer had chased another man, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna, into an apartment duplex where the pair lived. Both had legal status, Moriarty said.

Officers initially alleged Aljorna had violently resisted arrest, and that Sosa-Celis and another man allegedly tried to intervene by attacking the officer with a shovel and broom handle, per an FBI investigator’s affidavit. At this point, Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg by a federal agent, before fleeing into a nearby apartment. He was then detained.

Agents were later accused of lying under oath and were placed under investigation. Video published in April appeared to contradict the original official version of events.

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This story was originally published May 18, 2026 at 11:49 AM.