An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer involved in the Minnesota immigration crackdown was charged with two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, state prosecutors announced on Thursday.
The officer, Gregory Donnell Morgan, allegedly pointed a gun at the heads of two civilians in a vehicle. Morgan was charged with one count for each victim, the Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said.
“Driving while pointing a weapon out of your moving vehicle at the victims, who were in another moving vehicle, could have led to yet another disastrous incident in a community that has already suffered too many,” she said.
The charges against Morgan mark the first time an ICE officer is facing criminal charges related to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, which drew national attention after the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
The Trump administration sent 3,000 federal officers to Minnesota after Operation Metro Surge began in December 2025.
Morgan was allegedly driving an SUV with no markings on Feb. 5 when he pulled up next to another vehicle and “pointed his duty weapon directly at both victims while continuing to drive illegally on the shoulder” of a highway, Moriarty said.
Following the interaction, the driver called 911 to report the incident.
“[For] a federal agent, our opinion is that illegally driving on a shoulder, pulling up to a car and pointing a gun at the heads of two community members who are not doing anything at the time is well beyond the scope of their authority,” Moriarty said.
The prosecutor said Morgan appeared to be attempting to bypass slower traffic when the victim “briefly moved their vehicle into the shoulder to slow him down.”
This led to the alleged incident, when the officer pulled up to the victim’s vehicle and opened his own window to point his weapon at the driver and passenger, Moriarty said.
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Minnesota State Patrol investigators interviewed Morgan the day after the incident.
Moriarty said that because there is now a warrant for Morgan’s arrest, authorities can arrest him “anywhere in the country.”