ICE Officer Gregory Morgan Jr. to Surrender in Minneapolis Assault Case

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer will turn himself in to police on Thursday after being charged last month with two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon. The charges stem from an incident on February 5 during the officer's deployment to Minnesota as part of Operation Midway Blitz.

An attorney for ICE employee Gregory Morgan Jr. said his client will surrender to authorities following the Hennepin County Attorney's Office announcement.

The county attorney's office stated that Morgan was driving back to the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis at the end of a shift when another driver cut him off. According to the complaint, Morgan drove his unmarked SUV on the shoulder of the highway, pulled his firearm, brandished the gun, and pointed it at motorists in another vehicle.

Morgan's lawyer, Ryan Pacyga, previously stated that the complaint's claims contained inaccurate and incomplete information.

Morgan's charge was the first filed against a federal immigration officer deployed to Minneapolis during a wintertime surge of 3,000 federal police to assist in arresting illegal immigrants across the sanctuary city. On Monday, ICE officer Christian Castro was charged in connection with the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis in January.

Castro faces four counts of second-degree assault and one misdemeanor count of falsely reporting a crime. Castro is accused of firing his service weapon through the front door of a Minneapolis home on January 14 and wounding a Venezuelan illegal immigrant inside.

Castro and another officer had claimed that they were attacked with a shovel and broom, but video evidence showed no initial assault on the officers occurred. ICE and federal law enforcement from Customs and Border Protection surged personnel to Minnesota in December 2025 through early February this year in an effort to find and arrest illegal immigrants with criminal records because local and state jails would not allow ICE to transfer them into federal custody in a jail setting.