{"id":71679,"date":"2026-04-14T12:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/ice-detention-of-us-citizen-in-minnesota-investigated-as-kidnapping-false-arrest\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:56:04","slug":"ice-detention-of-us-citizen-in-minnesota-investigated-as-kidnapping-false-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/ice-detention-of-us-citizen-in-minnesota-investigated-as-kidnapping-false-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE detention of US citizen in Minnesota investigated as kidnapping, false arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>County officials review whether ICE\u2019s warrantless raid and forced transport of a St Paul US citizen broke law<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minnesota\">Minnesota<\/a> are investigating the detention by federal immigration officers of a US citizen as a possible kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of ChongLy \u201cScott\u201d Thao, 56, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<\/a> in January became symbolic of Operation Metro Surge, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s brutal crackdown in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St Paul.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/14\/ice-detention-minnesota-investigation-false-arrest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County officials review whether ICE\u2019s warrantless raid and forced transport of a St Paul US citizen broke law Authorities in Minnesota are investigating the detention by federal immigration officers of a US citizen as a possible kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment. The arrest of ChongLy \u201cScott\u201d Thao, 56, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in &#8230; <a title=\"ICE detention of US citizen in Minnesota investigated as kidnapping, false arrest\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/ice-detention-of-us-citizen-in-minnesota-investigated-as-kidnapping-false-arrest\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about ICE detention of US citizen in Minnesota investigated as kidnapping, false arrest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}