Minneapolis police reportedly searched the apartment where Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son lives Tuesday night and recovered guns and ammunition.

The arrest identified in the reporting was of his roommate, 22-year-old Abdulrahman Tulle Abdi. Omar’s son was not the man police said they arrested.

And the investigation did not begin at the apartment. According to the police account, a traffic stop led to an impounded vehicle, a recovered firearm and officers locating the driver at the residence.

Alpha News reporter Liz Collin reported Thursday that multiple law enforcement sources described a Tuesday-night search warrant at the Minneapolis apartment where the congresswoman’s son lives. Those sources said guns and ammunition were recovered from the scene.

The Minneapolis Police Department statement Collin shared identifies Abdi as the driver officers stopped. Police said he was cited for driving after cancellation and failing to provide proof of insurance, then released at the scene while his vehicle was impounded.

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A firearm was discovered during the impound process, according to the statement. Officers subsequently located Abdi at an apartment in Minneapolis and arrested him without incident.

Police said Abdi was booked into the Hennepin County Jail on a weapons charge and that the investigation remained ongoing. Collin specifically reported that the man whose arrest police confirmed was not Omar’s son.

That distinction matters. A search of a shared residence does not establish that every person who lives there committed a crime, and the police statement does not accuse Omar’s son of possessing the recovered firearm.

It also leaves unanswered who owned the guns reportedly found inside the apartment, how many were recovered and what investigators believe happened beyond the traffic stop.

The Daily Mail obtained a police statement describing the same traffic stop and arrest, and reported that records showed Abdi was released Wednesday night. The outlet identified him as the roommate of Omar’s son and reported that his criminal history included ten convictions, mostly misdemeanors.

One earlier case involved officers reporting that he drove a Jeep Grand Cherokee at 108 mph in St. Paul alongside a Dodge Durango. The paper reported that he pleaded guilty to fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, a felony.

According to the sentencing order described by the outlet, Abdi received one day in the Dakota County Jail and two years of supervised probation. The paper also reported earlier convictions involving speeding, driving after license revocation, using a phone while driving and failing to provide proof of insurance.

Those earlier cases are separate from this week’s weapons arrest. The new booking is not a conviction, and the reported release does not answer how the current investigation will be resolved.

The case now puts a police search and a weapons arrest close to a member of Congress’s family. But the next answers need to come from the investigation: what was seized, who possessed it and whether prosecutors file a case.

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For now, the named arrested man is Abdi. The available police account does not establish criminal wrongdoing by Omar or her son.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

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