{"id":341753,"date":"2026-09-09T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341753\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:49:23","slug":"brooklyn-center-hotel-raids-tied-to-human-trafficking-drugs-firearms-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341753\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Center hotel raids tied to human trafficking, drugs, firearms investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/9_9-brooklyn-center-raid-kmspeme001_06_30_54_mpg_00.01.05.36.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">Law enforcement are conducting a planned operation at two Brooklyn Center hotels on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 (FOX 9)<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (FOX 9) &#8211; A planned law enforcement operation is underway at two Brooklyn Center hotels Wednesday morning as part of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ongoing investigation<\/a> into suspected human trafficking, narcotics distribution, firearms offenses and other criminal activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Operations at Brooklyn Center hotels <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KMSP\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Brooklyn Center police said the operation is taking place at the Travelodge and Super 8 hotels on James Circle, just off Interstate 694.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to authorities, the planned operation is connected to an investigation involving suspected human trafficking, narcotics distribution, firearms offenses and other criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police are asking people to avoid the area while the operation is taking place. Temporary road closures and other traffic restrictions are also possible.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KMSP\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police have not said whether any arrests have been made or provided additional details about the suspected criminal activity being investigated.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story uses information from the Brooklyn Center Police Department and FOX 9 crews at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/us\/mn\/hennepin-county\/brooklyn-center\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Center<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Law enforcement are conducting a planned operation at two Brooklyn Center hotels on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 (FOX 9)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,9185,100,99,850,9230,9229,9,24,12,63,618],"class_list":["post-341753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-center","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-hennepin-county","tag-mn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}