An ICE agent deployed to Minneapolis as part of Operation Metro Surge has turned himself after a warrant was issued against him.
35-year-old Gregory Morgan Jr. has been charged in Hennepin County with felony assault for allegedly pointing a gun at another car on highway 62 in February.
If convicted he could face up to three years in prison.
"People do not yet know what was going through his mind or what he was experiencing," Morgan's attorney Ryan Pacyga said. "And it's easy to get, I think, riled up and think, 'well, he allegedly pointed a gun at a vehicle that swerved at him,' and that's it, right? But there's so much more to the story here."
Pacyga says Morgan was booked into the Hennepin County jail, where he is facing two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon in April for an incident that occurred in February.
"He didn't know what these other people were up to in that vehicle," Pacyga explains. "He didn't know who they were. He didn't know what their intentions were other than I would say they violently swerved at him, and there's even more to it than that, that led up to it that nobody knows about it yet. That will come out later."
Morgan is expected to make his first court appearance Friday.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said, while filing the charges in April, that they reflect an important milestone in efforts to seek accountability for the harms inflicted on community.
"I drew daily inspiration from the care Minnesotans showed for each other during Metro Surge,” Moriarty said. “Our work continues on all fronts, from the killings of Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti, to the shooting of Mr. Sosa-Celis, to the incidents being investigated by our Transparency and Accountability Project. We will not rest until we get the answers we seek about federal agent conduct across Hennepin County and accountability is delivered wherever appropriate.”
