{"id":66233,"date":"2026-02-13T02:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/justice-department-moves-to-drop-charges-against-men-accused-of-hitting-ice-officer-in-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:57:28","slug":"justice-department-moves-to-drop-charges-against-men-accused-of-hitting-ice-officer-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/justice-department-moves-to-drop-charges-against-men-accused-of-hitting-ice-officer-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice department moves to drop charges against men accused of hitting ICE officer in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutor says \u2018newly discovered evidence\u2019 in case against Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis \u2018materially inconsistent with the allegations against them\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis have moved to drop felony assault charges against two Venezuelan men, including one shot in the leg by an immigration officer, after new evidence emerged undercutting the government\u2019s version of events.<\/p>\n<p>In a filing on Thursday, the US attorney\u2019s office for the district of Minnesota said \u201cnewly discovered evidence\u201d in the criminal case against Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis \u201cis materially inconsistent with the allegations against them\u201d made in a criminal complaint and a court hearing last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/13\/justice-department-moves-to-drop-charges-alfredo-alejandro-aljorna-julio-cesar-sosa-celis-ice-minnesota\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutor says \u2018newly discovered evidence\u2019 in case against Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis \u2018materially inconsistent with the allegations against them\u2019 Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis have moved to drop felony assault charges against two Venezuelan men, including one shot in the leg by an immigration officer, after new evidence emerged undercutting the government\u2019s version &#8230; <a title=\"Justice department moves to drop charges against men accused of hitting ICE officer in Minnesota\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/justice-department-moves-to-drop-charges-against-men-accused-of-hitting-ice-officer-in-minnesota\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Justice department moves to drop charges against men accused of hitting ICE officer in Minnesota\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}