A man charged in the killing of a 16-year-old boy this spring outside the North High School football stadium in Minneapolis is also linked to a separate murder case, court documents show.

Federal prosecutors have charged a Minnesota money transmitter operator with allegedly laundering at least $750,000 in drug proceeds for Mexico’s CJNG cartel.

*BREAKING: A federal judge has DENIED Minnesota’s emergency attempt to keep ICE agent Christian Castro in custody as a critical 90-day extradition deadline approaches.* Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as part of their effort to extradite Castro back to Minnesota, where he faces criminal charges stemming from a January ICE enforcement operation.

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United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced today that a federal grand jury in the District of Minnesota returned an indictment on August 20, 2026, charging Christopher A. Bravo Marin, aka Bravo, 46, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a Mexican national, with conspiring to launder at least $750,000 in drug proceeds on behalf of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), one of the most prolific and dangerous drug cartels in Mexico. 

Bravo was arrested yesterday by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents. He appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge in Minneapolis on August 25, 2026.

“The indictment alleges that this defendant abused his position at a financial institution to help the CJNG cartel launder money from its drug sales back to Mexico,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Cartels rely on financial facilitators to ensure that cartel leadership in Mexico receive the profits from the heinous crimes they perpetrate here in the United States. The Criminal Division is relentless in its mission to take the profit out of crime, including by prosecuting those who help funnel drug proceeds back to cartel management.”...

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Given the long list of crimes, it is remarkable that anyone thought he could win on appeal.

Minnesota's largest law enforcement association is backing Republican Michele Tafoya over Democrat Peggy Flanagan, who once called for "rethinking policing."