Lubbock Police arrested Christian Castro, 21, for the second time in two days. 

Early Wednesday morning, police arrested Castro and accused him of assaulting his pregnant girlfriend in the 3300 block of Auburn Avenue.  

Castro posted bond and was released Thursday morning.  By Thursday evening he was back in the Lubbock County Detention Center.  The charge listed on the jail booking sheet was retaliation.

On Friday, EverythingLubbock.com obtained court records that would explain more about the retaliation charge which was listed as a third-degree felony.

An officer wrote that when Castro was arrested early Thursday morning, he resisted arrest.

“During this time, Mr. Castro was yelling at me,” an officer wrote. “At one point during the time near my vehicle he advised me he planned on sodomizing my wife.” 

The arrest warrant specifically mentions this threat as the reason for the retaliation charge. The amount of bond Castro would have to post to get out of jail was listed on the arrest warrant as $100,000. 

Castro was once named as a person of interest in the Mark Ysasaga murder investigation.  Castro has to this day never been charged with anything related to Ysasaga.

Sources said, and the combination of public records and social media messages corroborated, that police paid Castro $10,000 of Crime Line money in June of 2015 for information leading to Ysasaga’s body.  The body was recovered after Ysasaga had been missing since 2012.

Castro was also arrested in April amid allegations that he punched his girlfriend in the face. He was able to post in April to get out of jail. 

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