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ICE officer charged in non-fatal shooting arrested by Minnesota authorities - KLBK | KAMC | EverythingLubbock.com

An ICE officer named Christian Castro made his first appearance in a Minneapolis courtroom Thursday, months after Texas authorities fought his extradition on charges tied to a January shooting of a Venezuelan man.
Castro stood in a glass enclosure inside the jail courtroom, handcuffed and dressed in an orange jumpsuit, according to the Associated Press. The shooting happened during an immigration crackdown that shook Minneapolis earlier this year. Castro's case became a flashpoint in a legal and political fight over whether Texas would hand him over to face Minnesota state charges. Judge Paul Scoggin presided over Thursday's brief hearing.
Castro isn't done with courtrooms yet. He faces a second hearing Friday, this time in federal court, on separate charges that he lied to investigators about what happened during the shooting.
For people watching how immigration enforcement plays out across state lines, this case shows how messy jurisdiction fights get when a federal officer is accused of a crime while on the job. Texas held onto Castro for months before this extradition finally happened, and now he answers to two different courts on two different sets of charges within 24 hours of each other, stemming from a single incident argued over across two states for the better part of a year.
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