{"id":267453,"date":"2026-04-14T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267453\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:18:09","slug":"plea-deal-for-us-citizen-arrested-in-sacramento-immigration-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/267453\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea deal for US citizen arrested in Sacramento immigration raid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. citizen arrested by federal agents during a high-profile immigration operation<\/a> at a south Sacramento Home Depot last summer has reached a plea agreement over criminal charges brought by federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n

The plea agreement, finalized Monday in Sacramento federal court, comes nearly nine months after the July arrest of Jose Manuel Castillo was captured on video by his wife<\/a>. He was detained at the Florin Road Home Depot during an operation in which masked U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers swarmed the parking lot and arrested 11 undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

Federal officials alleged that Castillo interfered with the operation and punctured the tires on one of their vehicles. Authorities later found a small knife in his pocket after he was transported to a detention facility in Stockton according to the criminal complaint.<\/a><\/p>\n

Under the agreement, Castillo will not face jail time. He pleaded guilty to the \u201cwillful injury and depredation\u201d of U.S. property and was placed on probation for one year. Castillo is also required to pay at least $478 in restitution to cover the replacement cost of the tire.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are very difficult times for people that care about justice,\u201d said Castillo\u2019s attorney, Mark Reichel, on Monday night in response to the agreement. \u201cICE is very brutal and this is a very minor offense compared to how brutal ICE is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"In In an image from video, Jose Castillo is detained by U.S. Border Patrol officers at the Florin Road Home Depot in south Sacramento on July 17, 2025. Castillo\u2019s wife Andrea said he is a U.S. citizen who was recording the actions of the masked federal agents. Courtesy of Christine Salas <\/p>\n

The immigration operation drew national attention after it was captured on video by a Fox News camera crew. The operation was led by former U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino,<\/a> who was the face of the Donald Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation campaign until his abrupt removal in January.<\/p>\n

A federal court ruled this month that the Sacramento operation violated a prior court order deeming such stops and arrests illegal. U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston wrote in Fresno federal court that officers \u201cagain detained people without reasonable suspicion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thurston enforced a preliminary injunction, reinforcing constitutional limits on Border Patrol operations in California\u2019s Eastern District, which spans from the Oregon border to Bakersfield and includes Sacramento.<\/p>\n

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Mathew Miranda<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Mathew Miranda is a political reporter for The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Capitol Bureau, covering how decisions in Washington, D.C., affect the lives of Californians. He is a proud son of Salvadoran immigrants and earned degrees from Chico State and UC Berkeley.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. citizen arrested by federal agents during a high-profile immigration operation at a south Sacramento Home Depot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-267453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}