{"id":410107,"date":"2026-01-16T03:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410107\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:59:10","slug":"fbi-1-arrested-after-protesters-smash-into-unmarked-federal-vehicles-allegedly-containing-federal-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410107\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI: 1 arrested after protesters smash into unmarked federal vehicles allegedly containing federal documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI says that a suspect is in custody after protests in north Minneapolis Wednesday evening culminated in vandalism and the apparent compromising of federal documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One individual who allegedly stole federal government property out of an FBI vehicle in Minneapolis last night has been arrested,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FBIDirectorKash\/status\/2011965846739173833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FBI Director Kash Patel announced Thursday evening<\/a>. &#8220;The suspect is a member of the Latin Kings gang with a known violent criminal history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Patel did not release the identity of the person apprehended, but added &#8220;there will be more arrests.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened after an ICE agent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/minneapolis-shooting-federal-law-enforcement-operation-metro-surge\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shot a man in the leg in north Minneapolis<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday night. WCCO Photojournalist Tom Aviles was a few blocks away from the scene two hours after the shooting happened, and caught some of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of alleged protesters smashed through two parked, unmarked FBI vehicles. They then forcibly ripped out a large lock box from the trunk and tried desperately to open it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crowd then appeared to tear through a second vehicle and successfully break into the locked container, which was already emptied. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels sort of surreal. It doesn&#8217;t feel this should be the world we have to live in,&#8221; one protester said.<\/p>\n<p>A woman showed WCCO what she claimed was inside: documents that appear to be from the U.S. Marshals Service. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How they&#8217;re picking them up, how they&#8217;re finding them, where they&#8217;re taking them to, how to access the buildings they&#8217;ve taken them to. The coins they receive for everyone they pick the f*** up,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis police eventually moved in, deployed tear gas and pepper balls to disperse the crowd. Those looted SUVs, now covered in graffiti, were towed away. <\/p>\n<p>The FBI earlier announced it was offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the vandalism and the return of stolen property.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FBI says that a suspect is in custody after protests in north Minneapolis Wednesday evening culminated in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,16950,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-410107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-minneapolis","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-united-states-of-america","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}