Minnesota: ICE Bounty Hunter (fake business van) pulls gun on person in street then pepper balls them. (video)

[mysteryowl]

Long article covers a lot of information.
In one part it says Bounty Hunters (no license, no training) are paid $1000.00 per person brought in.
DHS denies hiring them for ICE round-up, but clearly they have been utilized.

So much crime by this regime!



Video at link of incident 3/3/26

Link to tweet

"...Concern grows over tactics of Twin Cities bounty hunters"

There are no licenses needed to become a bounty hunter in Minnesota, an issue that is raising concerns after highly public actions by bounty hunters in the Twin Cities this week.

Outside City Hall in downtown Minneapolis on Tuesday, March 3, a small group of protesters chanted as armed men escorted what some said was an immigration enforcement target into the Hennepin County jail.

In a video of the encounter, as two protesters blocked their van — labeled with “Midwest Plumbing” decals advertising a disconnected phone number — the driver opened his door, leaned over the windshield and pointed a pistol at them. Another man in a bulletproof vest and carrying a long gun walked outside the vehicle. One of the armed men shot pepperballs into the crowd.

The incident echoed encounters between federal agents and Twin Cities residents during Operation Metro Surge. But this time, the men were bail enforcement agents, or bounty hunters — contractors responsible for apprehending fugitives who post bail through a bond agency and then fail to appear in court.

Although bounty hunters have long operated in the Twin Cities, they can bear a resemblance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — in both how they appear and operate.

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While the DHS denies contracting with bounty hunters, last year, in a request for information first reported by The Intercept, the department conducted market research with skip tracing vendors, another term for bail bond agencies.

The document states that ICE had an “immediate need” for skip tracing and process serving to “verify alien address information, investigate alternative alien address information, confirm the new location of aliens, and delivery materials/documents to aliens as appropriate.”

In January, U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois introduced the “No Private Bounty Hunters for Immigration Enforcement Act” after he learned about the “department’s recent initiatives.”

https://www.startribune.com/as-operation-metro-surge-recedes-concern-grows-over-tactics-of-twin-cities-bounty-hunters/601592783