A Minnesota prosecutor is asking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to authorize the extradition of a federal officer who shot and injured an immigrant in Minneapolis in January.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a letter to Abbott that his sign-off is the “final step” in transferring Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro to Minnesota to face state criminal charges.
Castro, 52, is charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime. Minnesota officials issued a warrant for his arrest in May, and authorities in Texas arrested him on May 29. He has been held in a jail in Cameron County, Texas, since then.
Minnesota prosecutors allege Castro, in pursuit of another man, fired into a residence and struck Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg. The Venezuelan immigrant was one of three people shot by federal agents in Minnesota in January as part of the Trump administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement operations. Moriarty also has charged another ICE officer with assaulting a motorist in an unrelated case.
A spokesperson for Abbott declined to comment on the potential extradition of Castro.
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