Why Is No One Talking About the ICE Agent Who Has Been a Fugitive for a Month?

Call me crazy, but at the height of ICE’s Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis this winter, following the slayings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE and Border Patrol respectively, I would have assumed that those immigration agents receiving criminal charges and then becoming fugitives from justice would be the sort of thing that would stir up a consistent level of media hubbub. Perhaps that very outcome is still in the cards, and it will be the biggest story in the country when it happens … but in the meantime, everyone has seemingly decided to collectively ignore the fact that the first ICE agent charged with a felony for their conduct in Minnesota has been a fugitive for a month now, and that both ICE and DHS have refused to even acknowledge that the charges exist. Seriously, why the hell is no one talking about the lack of an arrest for ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., the man who pointed his gun at random motorists because he was annoyed they were momentarily blocking his way?

This topic has been revived as of today thanks to the announcement of a different set of charges against another immigration agent of ICE by the same prosecutor’s office, that of Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty. On Monday, Moriarty announced charges against ICE’s Christian Castro in the non-fatal Jan. 14 shooting of Minneapolis resident Julio Sosa-Celis, a man who had been fraudulently charged by the Department of Homeland Security with having attacked ICE agents, only to see those charges collapse after the release of video that effectively proved the attack never happened as described. There are plenty of details to dive into in the case of Castro, who even ICE director Todd Lyons (who announced he’s fleeing the agency in April) admitted was lying about the encounter. But for the moment, allow me to focus on a detail that finally emerged about the earlier charges against Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., who has essentially been entirely unmentioned by both ICE and the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office in the last month that he’s apparently been on the run.

In the course of giving a press conference about the charges against Castro, Moriarty was blessedly asked a direct question by local media about the status of Morgan Jr., and whether he had yet been arrested. She confirmed that he had not been, and then offered the following cryptic information: “You’ve noticed that Mr. Morgan, the ICE agent we charged earlier, is still not in custody. What I can say about Mr. Morgan’s case is that we have made substantial progress in getting him here to start that process.”

I would absolutely love to know what any of those words mean, but repeated inquiries to the Hennepin County Attorney’s office resulted only in repetition of Moriarty’s statement. It seems to imply that the county attorney’s office is confident that Morgan Jr. will be apprehended and face his charges in Minnesota, but a massive question remains: What of ICE, and what of DHS? Have they been cooperating in bringing Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., a wanted man, to face the charges against him, or have they been actively shielding him? Will these federal agencies take any role whatsoever in the enforcement of state law against their agents, or is it ICE’s official position that all agents are immune from any consequence for anything they do? Requests for information specifically about ICE’s involvement in the case from Jezebel/Splinter to the county attorney’s office have gone unanswered, while numerous requests for comment of any kind from ICE and DHS have likewise been ignored to date. Nor has there been a single press release from ICE or DHS, as far as I can tell, making comment on the Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. case: It’s as if, in the eyes of those agencies, their employee does not exist.

Moriarty, however, made another comment during the press conference that is potentially illuminating. When asked by a local reporter if her office had “any cooperation whatsoever from anyone at the federal level on this investigation,” seemingly in reference to the charges against Castro, Moriarty said the following: “We did not have cooperation from anyone at the federal government to give us any of the evidence we have. We still don’t have any of the evidence that they might have collected.” She then confirmed that her office doesn’t currently know where Castro is, but said that “There are mechanisms out there to find him, and I feel pretty confident that we will get him in here to start the process.”

This would seemingly imply that the case of Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. is the same situation: A nationwide warrant for arrest is issued, and the federal government agencies responsible for that employee then utterly refuse to participate in the process. Does ICE know where these men are? Is ICE rendering aid to Morgan Jr., or Christian Castro, while police hunt for them? Or is ICE involved in brokering some kind of deal between their agents with state charges, and the state itself, to turn themselves in? I’ve seen no evidence at all of the latter as of yet, and the attitude of the overall department (DHS) in the era of the second Trump administration has perpetually been to refuse to admit fault and instead double down on what it already knows full well are lies.

ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr.

Still a fugitive from the law

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— Treetop Flyer (@treetopflyer.bsky.social) 1:29 PM · Apr 22, 2026

Presumably at some point, Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. will indeed be in custody, if Moriarty is correct that her office has “made substantial progress in getting him here.” When that happens, we will likely know by watching the public case listing–you can look it up yourself on the portal here, with the case number 27-CR-26-9656. As it currently notes, the warrant for Morgan Jr. is still active. Just how has the man spent this last month, anyway, since being charged? Maybe he’s been off on a monthlong silent retreat and simply hasn’t heard about it yet?

I don’t mean to minimize this week’s news of a second ICE agent being charged with felony level crimes in Minnesota–what federal agent Christian Castro is accused of is decidedly worse than the gun-brandishing allegedly committed by Morgan Jr. The press conference today makes that bountifully clear, with Moriarty at one point explaining that “Mr. Castro fired his service weapon at the front door of the home, knowing that there were people who had just run inside who presented absolutely no threat to him or anyone else.” Said bullets ultimately found their way into being lodged in the wall of a child’s bedroom. Bad stuff! You know, the kind of shit you expect to hear about in budding totalitarian regimes.

But at the same time, the case of Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. still sticks in my mind, not just because he was the first ICE agent actually charged with serious, state-level crimes during the second Trump administration, but also because the response of DHS will give us an idea of what to expect from their strategy of offering a blanket defense against all wrongdoing committed by federal agents against American citizens and civilians. How far will the organization be willing to go to shield its agents from culpability, in order to protect Trump’s mass deportation campaign from the kind of scrutiny that could slow it down? Here’s hoping that Minnesota’s example helps other states to extract justice when federal agents commit crimes.