ICE Agent Charged in Minnesota Shooting Does Not Agree to Leave Texas

Christian Castro, who is jailed in Texas, was charged with assault in connection with a January shooting that wounded a man.


A federal immigration agent charged in connection with an on-duty shooting in Minnesota will not waive extradition from Texas, his lawyer told a judge on Thursday, raising more doubt about when and if he will answer charges in a Minneapolis courtroom.

The agent, Christian J. Castro, was arrested and jailed last week in Texas on assault charges filed last month in Minnesota state court. His refusal to waive extradition raises the stakes of a case that was already testing local prosecutors’ ability to seek criminal consequences for federal officers accused of wrongdoing.

The charges stem from one of three shootings involving federal agents during the Trump administration’s surge of agents to Minnesota over the winter. Federal officials have called the Minnesota prosecution “unlawful and nothing more than a political stunt.”

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Because he did not waive extradition, getting Mr. Castro to appear in a Minnesota courtroom will most likely require Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, a Democrat, to make a formal request to Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/ice-agent-minnesota-shooting-extradition.html


I think we know how this is gonna end up.