The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and lying about it during the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in Minneapolis was arrested Friday in Texas, authorities said.

The agent, Christian Castro, was arrested by federal officers from the watchdog arm of the Department of Homeland Security with the help of Texas and Minnesota law enforcement officials. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension tracked Castro’s whereabouts to the state, according to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, which issued a warrant for his arrest this month.

Castro was charged with four counts of assault in the second degree and one count of falsely reporting a crime in connection to the Jan. 14 shooting of Venezuelan national Julio Sosa-Celis, 24, at the height of Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s deadly immigration enforcement operation in the Twin Cities.

“Christian Castro’s alleged shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis appears unwarranted, as evidenced by the lies Castro told his ICE supervisors to justify his unlawful actions,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said following the arrest.

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