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ICE accused of ‘kidnapping’ US citizen by mistake
April 15, 2026
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A Minnesota county has opened a criminal investigation into an arrest by federal agents who broke into a St. Paul home with guns drawn, handcuffed a man, and forced him outside in the snow in his underwear and sandals in January 2026, only to discover they had the wrong person. Ramsey County officials said in a statement on Monday that federal agents “may have committed the crimes of kidnapping, burglary, and false imprisonment”.
The man mistakenly detained, ChongLy “Scott” Thao, has said the officers had no warrant. County Attorney John Choi and Sheriff Bob Fletcher said in the statement that Thao was handcuffed, removed from his home without consent and driven around and questioned while in custody for about an hour before being returned home. The two “criminal illegal aliens” who DHS said it was seeking in that raid turned out to be elsewhere, one of them behind bars in a Minneapolis-area prison serving a four-year sentence. Asked about the investigation, DHS said in a statement that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not kidnap people, adding that a US citizen at the house refused to be fingerprinted or identified facially. Subscribe: http://trt.world/subscribe Livestream: http://trt.world/ytlive Facebook: http://trt.world/facebook X (Twitter): http://trt.world/twitter Instagram: http://trt.world/instagram TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@trtworld WhatsApp: trtworld.com/whatsapp Telegram: https://t.me/trtworld Visit our website: http://trt.world
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