Minneapolis police just showed up at the home of a sitting congresswoman’s son.
Guns and ammunition were hauled out. Someone got arrested.
And the name on the door belongs to Ilhan Omar’s son — which raises a whole lot of questions the congresswoman probably does not want asked right now.
What Happened at the Apartment on Marquette Avenue
Law enforcement sources told Alpha News reporter Liz Collin that Minneapolis police executed a search warrant at the apartment where Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) son, Adnan, lives, and recovered guns and ammunition from the scene.
The search grew out of a traffic stop earlier the same day.
Officers pulled over Abdulrahman Abdi, 22 — Adnan’s roommate — cited him for no proof of insurance and no license, then impounded his vehicle. During the impound process, a firearm turned up inside the car.
That discovery gave officers what they needed. They tracked Abdi to the Marquette Avenue apartment, executed the search warrant, and arrested him without incident.
Abdi was booked into the Hennepin County Jail on a weapons charge. He was released the following night, according to jail records.
The Minneapolis Police Department confirmed to Collin that the only person arrested was Abdi — not Adnan Omar. Officials declined to say publicly whether Adnan was suspected of any wrongdoing or whether the guns and ammunition recovered from the apartment were connected to him in any way. The department said the investigation remains ongoing.
Court records reviewed by the Daily Mail show Abdi has been convicted ten times in the past, with most incidents classified as misdemeanors. His record includes a felony for driving at high speed with a revoked license.
The Congresswoman Who Lectures America About Law Enforcement
This is the same Ilhan Omar who has spent years positioning herself as one of the loudest critics of police and federal law enforcement in the entire country.
She has called ICE a “rogue agency.” She has accused federal agents of “racial profiling” and “ripping people out of their cars and homes without warrants.” She pushed hard to defund the Minneapolis Police Department after 2020 and has made opposition to law enforcement a central feature of her political identity.
And now police have raided her son’s apartment and walked out with guns.
Adnan was not arrested, and there is no public indication he faces charges. That is worth stating clearly. But the congresswoman who has built a career attacking law enforcement as a predatory institution is now watching officers execute a search warrant at the home where her son sleeps — and the man they did arrest, the one who shared that apartment with her son, reportedly has ten prior convictions on his record.
That is not a small detail.
The ICE Story That Did Not Hold Up
This is not the first time Adnan has surfaced in the news in connection with law enforcement.
In December 2025, Omar went on WCCO — CBS’s Minnesota affiliate — and told viewers that her son had been pulled over by ICE agents after a stop at a Target store and asked to prove his citizenship. She described it as “blatant racial profiling” and wrote a formal letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanding answers.
The Department of Homeland Security pushed back hard.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said the agency has “absolutely ZERO record” of its officers or agents pulling over Omar’s son, calling her accusations “a ridiculous effort to unfairly demonize our law enforcement officers.”
Newsmax Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen reported that ICE officials confirmed to him directly that the agency had no record of the stop Omar described.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz backed Omar’s account, claiming her son had been pulled over while “following the law.” But reports indicated Adnan had actually been stopped for a traffic violation — which, by definition, is not following the law.
So Omar turned a disputed traffic stop involving her son into a national story about ICE brutality and racial terror. Federal law enforcement flatly denied her version of events. And now, months later, police have executed a search warrant at that same son’s apartment and seized firearms.
The congresswoman has not commented publicly on the raid.
What This Pattern Actually Looks Like
Omar represents Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, which includes Minneapolis. She has been in Congress since 2019 and is a prominent member of the progressive bloc known as “the Squad.”
Her political career has been built in large part on the argument that American law enforcement is a systemically corrupt and racially hostile institution — one that harasses, surveils, and brutalizes communities of color while the powerful escape accountability.
But the picture emerging from her son’s apartment on Marquette Avenue does not fit that narrative particularly well.
Police did not show up there to harass anyone. They showed up because a man with ten prior convictions was stopped in a car that had a firearm in it, and that man happened to live with the congresswoman’s son. The officers did their jobs. They got a warrant. They made an arrest. They seized weapons.
That is law enforcement working exactly the way Omar’s constituents — especially those in high-crime Minneapolis neighborhoods — deserve to have it work.
And yet the same congresswoman who spent years demanding those neighborhoods be policed less aggressively, who voted and marched and fundraised on the idea that cops are the problem, now has a situation on her hands that only exists because cops were doing their jobs.
The investigation is ongoing. The department has not released additional details. Adnan Omar has not been charged. Those facts stand.
But the broader picture — a congresswoman who has made a career out of attacking law enforcement, whose son’s apartment just got raided, whose roommate has a ten-conviction record, and whose previous story about her son and federal agents fell apart under scrutiny — is the kind of thing that deserves more than a press release.
Omar has long positioned herself as a voice for communities that feel over-policed and under-protected. The irony is that the communities she claims to represent are often the ones most harmed when the argument to defund police actually wins — when response times slow, when officers leave, when the people left behind have nowhere to turn.
Minneapolis has lived through that experiment already. The city voted to replace its police department after 2020, then reversed course when crime spiked and residents demanded protection. That reversal did not come from the political class. It came from ordinary people who needed help and found that the defund movement had made their neighborhoods less safe.
Omar was on the wrong side of that debate. She is still in Congress. And her son’s apartment is now the subject of an active weapons investigation.
Sources: Alpha News / Liz Collin reporting; Daily Mail; Western Journal; Washington Times; Newsmax / James Rosen; WCCO-TV; Department of Homeland Security statement; Hennepin County Jail records