A Minnesota man accused of killing a state lawmaker and her husband claimed in a handwritten letter to the FBI that he was acting on secret orders from the governor, federal prosecutors revealed Tuesday.
The man accused of fatally shooting a Minnesota state representative and her husband — and trying to kill a state senator and his wife — was arrested Sunday night after law enforcement found him crawling through a field in rural Sibley County, about an hour west of Minneapolis.
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office over its policy directing prosecutors to consider race and other factors when negotiating plea deals.
A Minnesota man is accused of operating his own cartel-sourced, Mexican-based drug trafficking organization that brought thousands of pounds of methamphetamine to Minnesota.
A Border Patrol agent who was killed in a shootout with drug dealers in 1988 was recently honored in a bench dedication ceremony in Minnesota.
A Minneapolis man who impersonated an FBI agent was sentenced to 10 months in prison.
Three county sheriff’s departments in Minnesota are removing deputies from U.S. Marshals task forces until they are allowed to wear body cameras.
The ATF is investigating more than 150 fires that broke out during unrest following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
