2026年2月12日 / 美国东部时间晚上8:37 / CBS新闻
美国司法部撤回了对上月在明尼阿波利斯涉嫌袭击美国移民和海关执法局(ICE)官员的两名男子的联邦指控，其中一名委内瑞拉被告被一名官员射伤腿部。司法部称，”新发现的证据”与针对他们的指控”存在重大矛盾”。
明尼苏达州美国检察官丹尼尔·罗森(Daniel Rosen)周四提交的文件要求有偏见地驳回对这两人的指控，这意味着这些指控不能重新提起。
今年1月，阿尔弗雷多·亚历杭德罗·阿尔霍纳(Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna)和胡利奥·塞萨尔·索萨-塞利斯(Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis)两人因在履行公务时”强行袭击、抵抗或阻碍联邦官员”被联邦刑事投诉指控。这些指控是在索萨-塞利斯被一名ICE官员开枪击中后提出的，当时正值明尼苏达州联邦移民激增，这一事件引起了全国关注。
目前尚不清楚具体是什么新信息导致指控被驳回。但政府对所谓袭击的描述并不一致。
枪击事件发生一天后，美国国土安全部(DHS)表示，索萨-塞利斯在车辆中逃离明尼阿波利斯”有针对性的交通拦截”现场，撞上一辆停放的汽车后继续步行逃跑。当一名ICE特工追上他时，两名男子据称用扫帚柄和雪铲袭击了特工，索萨-塞利斯据称挣脱并开始袭击该官员。国土安全部称，一名官员随后”为保卫生命而开枪自卫”。索萨-塞利斯和另外两人跑进一栋公寓后被拘留。
但在支持对这两人指控的宣誓书中，联邦调查局(FBI)称，是阿尔霍纳而非索萨-塞利斯驾车逃离现场，索萨-塞利斯在试图逮捕阿尔霍纳时最初用扫帚柄袭击了ICE官员。FBI称，阿尔霍纳随后挣脱并开始用同一把扫帚柄袭击ICE官员。宣誓书还称，该官员”照明条件差或断断续续”，”难以看清袭击者”。
州议员在网上分享的枪击事件后片刻的手机视频显示，一名女子似乎告诉911接线员，她的丈夫在回到家前被ICE特工追捕，并在家人面前被枪击。
阿尔霍纳的律师弗雷德里克·戈茨(Frederick Goetz)告诉CBS新闻，他对”有偏见地驳回指控的决定感到高兴”。他还称赞了明尼苏达州美国检察官办公室——该办公室最近几周经历了一系列辞职事件——”做了正确的事”。
“据我了解，记录事件的视频监控证据与联邦特工对事件的描述存在重大矛盾，”戈茨继续说道，”特工关于被袭击的说法没有视频证据支持。”
CBS新闻已联系司法部和索萨-塞利斯的律师寻求置评。
此次枪击事件发生在ICE特工乔纳森·罗斯(Jonathan Ross)在明尼阿波利斯南部开枪打死雷妮·古德(Renee Good)一周后，以及两名国土安全部特工在该市开枪打死亚历克斯·普雷蒂(Alex Pretti)前10天。
在古德和普雷蒂被枪击后的几天里，数千名抗议者在明尼苏达州街头示威，加剧了双城地区的紧张局势。
一度，特朗普总统威胁要援引《叛乱法案》并向该州派遣军队，但上周，边境负责人汤姆·霍曼(Tom Homan)接管了行动。他周四宣布结束该州移民特工的激增行动，称在”地铁行动”期间发生了大量”公共安全逮捕”，联邦官员对”煽动者”的回应需求减少。
DOJ drops charges against men accused of assaulting ICE officers in Minneapolis, citing “inconsistent” evidence
February 12, 2026 / 8:37 PM EST / CBS News
The Justice Department moved to drop federal charges against two men charged with assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis last month, including one Venezuelan defendant who was shot in the leg by an officer, citing “newly discovered evidence” that was “materially inconsistent” with the allegations against them.
The filing, entered Thursday by U.S. Attorney in Minnesota Daniel Rosen, moves to dismiss the charges against the men with prejudice, meaning the charges cannot be reintroduced.
In January, the two men, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, were charged in a federal criminal complaint with forcibly assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers in performance of their official duties. The charges came after Sosa-Celis was shot by an ICE officer, which drew nationwide attention amid the federal immigration surge in Minnesota.
It is unclear specifically what new information led to the charges getting dismissed. But the government’s account of the alleged assault was not consistent.
A day after the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security said Sosa-Celis had fled the scene of a “targeted traffic stop” in Minneapolis in his vehicle, crashed into a parked car and kept fleeing on foot. When an ICE agent caught up to him, two men allegedly attacked the agent with a broom handle and snow shovel, and Sosa-Celis allegedly broke free and also started striking the officer. DHS said an officer then fired a “defensive shot to defend his life.” Sosa-Celis and two other men ran into an apartment but were later taken into custody, DHS said.
But in an affidavit to support charges against the two men, the FBI said that Aljorna — not Sosa-Celis — had fled the scene in a car, and Sosa-Celis was the one who initially struck the ICE officer with a broom stick while he tried to arrest Aljorna. The FBI alleged that Aljorna then broke free and started attacking the ICE officer with the same broomstick. The affidavit also says that the officer “had poor or sporadic lighting” and “had difficulty seeing the assailants.”
And in a cellphone video from the moments after the shooting that was shared online by a state lawmaker, a woman appears to tell a 911 operator that her husband was chased by ICE agents before he reached his home, and was shot in front of his family.
Frederick Goetz, an attorney for Aljorna, told CBS News he’s “delighted” by the decision to dismiss the charges with prejudice. He also commended the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota — which has been hit by a wave of resignations in recent weeks — for “doing the right thing.”
“It is my understanding that the video surveillance evidence that captured the incident was materially inconsistent with the federal agent’s claims of what happened,” Goetz continued, writing that “the agent’s claims of being assaulted were not backed up by the video evidence.”
CBS News has reached out to the Justice Department and an attorney for Sosa-Celis for comment.
The shooting occurred a week after ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good in south Minneapolis, and 10 days before two DHS agents in the city fatally shot Alex Pretti.
In the days after Good and Pretti’s shootings, thousands of protesters demonstrated in the streets in Minnesota, raising tensions in the Twin Cities.
At one point, President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and send the military into the state, but in the last week, border czar Tom Homan has taken over operations. He announced Thursday the end of the surge of immigration agents in the state, citing a high number of “public safety arrests” during “Operation Metro Surge” and the diminished need for federal officers to respond to “agitators.”
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