Minneapolis police executed a search warrant at the apartment of Rep. Ilhan Omar's son, recovering firearms and ammunition before arresting his roommate, a 22-year-old with ten prior convictions.

Officers raided the Marquette Avenue apartment of Adnan Omar on Tuesday night after a daytime traffic stop set the chain of events in motion. Abdulrahman Abdi, 22, who shares the apartment with Omar's son, was booked into Hennepin County Jail on a weapons charge. He walked out the following night, the Daily Mail reported.

Adnan Omar, the son of the Minnesota congresswoman and her ex-husband Ahmed Hirsi, has not been arrested or charged. But the raid on his home, and the criminal history of the man living under his roof, drew immediate attention to a household with a direct line to one of the most prominent progressive voices in Congress.

A traffic stop, a hidden gun, and a search warrant

The sequence started Tuesday during daylight hours. Minneapolis police pulled Abdi over and cited him for driving without a license and without proof of insurance. Officers released him at the scene.

Then they began impounding the vehicle. Inside, they found a firearm.

That discovery prompted officers to track Abdi to the Marquette Avenue address, Adnan Omar's apartment. Police obtained a search warrant, executed it Tuesday night, and recovered guns and ammunition from the residence. The Minneapolis Police Department told the Daily Mail that officers arrested Abdi "without incident."

Abdi was booked just after noon on Tuesday and released just before midnight Wednesday, Fox News reported. The specific weapons charge he faces has not been publicly detailed. Nor has law enforcement disclosed what types of firearms were seized or how many.

Alpha News, citing law enforcement sources, first reported the search warrant execution at Adnan Omar's apartment.

Abdi's record: ten convictions, a felony, and one day in jail

Court records reviewed by the Daily Mail show Abdi has been convicted ten times. Most of those convictions are misdemeanors. His rap sheet stretches back to at least 2022, when he was cited for using a cell phone while driving, excessive speeding, and failing to show proof of insurance.

The most serious entry came in 2024. Officers in St. Paul reported Abdi traveling at 108 miles per hour behind the wheel of a Jeep Grand Cherokee, speeding alongside a Dodge Durango. He pleaded guilty to fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, a felony.

His sentence: one day inside Dakota County Jail and two years of supervised probation.

One day. For fleeing police at 108 mph. That sentence alone raises the question of whether the system treated Abdi's repeated offenses with the seriousness they warranted, or whether a pattern of leniency left a convicted felon free to accumulate still more charges. Incidents like a recent arrest of an armed man at a Capitol barricade remind us that firearms charges tend to escalate when the justice system fails to intervene early.

Last year, Abdi was again found speeding and driving on a revoked license. Now he sits at the center of a weapons case that brought police through the front door of a congresswoman's son's home.

Omar's prior claims about her son and federal agents

Rep. Ilhan Omar has not publicly addressed the raid on her son's apartment or Abdi's arrest. She has, however, placed her son at the center of a different law enforcement controversy in recent months.

Last year, Omar told WCCO that Adnan had been stopped by ICE agents who questioned his citizenship:

"Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by [ICE] agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go."

Omar also claimed that ICE agents had entered a mosque where her son and others were praying before leaving without making any arrests. She used both episodes to criticize federal immigration enforcement.

The contrast is worth noting plainly. When federal agents briefly questioned her U.S.-citizen son during an immigration stop, Omar went public and framed it as overreach. When Minneapolis police raided that same son's apartment and hauled out guns and ammunition because his roommate, a convicted felon, was allegedly keeping firearms there, silence. Accountability in law enforcement, it seems, matters most when the cameras point in a useful direction. The pattern echoes cases where officials face consequences only when the facts become too public to ignore.

Unanswered questions pile up

Several critical facts remain unclear. Was Adnan Omar home when police executed the warrant? Was he questioned? The Daily Mail's reporting does not say, and Minneapolis police have not disclosed those details.

It is also unknown whether Abdi was still serving his two-year supervised probation from the 2024 felony conviction when he was arrested on the weapons charge. If he was, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon on probation would carry far more severe legal consequences than a standalone weapons offense.

The relationship between the traffic stop and the apartment search warrant raises its own questions. Did the gun found during the vehicle impoundment provide probable cause for the warrant? Were the firearms recovered from the apartment the same weapon or additional ones? Law enforcement has not clarified the connection publicly.

And there is no indication whether Abdi is a U.S. citizen or legal resident, a detail that could carry its own legal weight depending on the charges prosecutors ultimately pursue. In a justice system where the wrong arrest can cost someone nearly a year in jail, the details of this case deserve full public accounting.

Social media reaction targeted Omar directly

The raid created sharp commentary online, much of it aimed squarely at Rep. Omar rather than at Abdi or her son. Right-wing activist Benny Johnson posted that the situation was "not a good look for Ilhan Omar." Opinion columnist Eitan Fischberger drew a broader family portrait, writing that Omar "supports violent jihad," that her daughter was "arrested during pro-Hamas campus riots," and that her son's "home raided by police; guns and ammunition seized."

Fox News noted that Adnan Omar, also known as Adnan Hirsi, was not implicated in any wrongdoing. The distinction matters. But the fact remains that a sitting congresswoman's son was living with a repeatedly convicted felon whose apartment yielded firearms and ammunition during a police raid. Voters can draw their own conclusions about judgment.

When elected officials build careers on demanding accountability from law enforcement and immigration agencies, their own households are not exempt from scrutiny. Cases involving public figures facing criminal proceedings consistently remind Americans that no one's position places them above the law, or above questions.

Rep. Omar spent months making her son's encounters with law enforcement a public talking point when it served her political argument against immigration enforcement. Now that police have raided that son's home and arrested the man living with him, the congresswoman's silence speaks for itself.