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08/26/2026

🚨 86 people were booked into the Hennepin County Jail in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Friday, August 21, 2026.

Data is sourced from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s official public records. Booking photos obtained from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office public booking records. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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08/23/2026

EIGHT ARRESTED ON PROBABLE CAUSE RIOT FOLLOWING JAKE LANG RALLY AT MINNEAPOLIS CITY HALL

Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Lang, Dawson, Miles, Major, Irwin, Norby, Scott, Oduguwa

Eight people are in Hennepin County custody after a Saturday rally outside Minneapolis City Hall turned into a street-level confrontation. According to Minneapolis police, just before noon two vehicles connected to the rally drove up onto the sidewalk in front of City Hall toward a crowd of people who had gathered there. Officers moved in to get the vehicles off the sidewalk and out of the area, and later tracked both down, stopping one near Washington Avenue and I-35W and the other in Bloomington.

The rally had been announced weeks in advance by Edward Jacob Lang, 31, a pardoned January 6th defendant who has organized similar demonstrations at the same location before. Lang was among those arrested. It has not been confirmed through the jail roster which of the other seven booked were in the vehicles that drove onto the sidewalk versus arrested separately in the area around City Hall — all eight are booked on the same probable cause riot statute, but their individual roles in the incident are not yet established through available records.

Booked:

LANG, EDWARD JACOB, 31, of Lake Worth, FL — booked 3:51 PM

DAWSON, ERIC WAYNE, 53, of Columbia Heights, MN — booked 1:48 PM

MILES, CHARLES OSCAR JR, 73, of Ecorse, MI — booked 2:17 PM

MAJOR, STEPHEN EDWARD, 42, of White Bear Lake, MN — booked 2:22 PM

IRWIN, JOHN WILLIAM-KEI, 32, of Sterling Heights, MI — booked 2:35 PM

NORBY, MATTHEW PATRICK, 37, of Inver Grove Heights, MN — booked 2:44 PM

SCOTT, JAYDEN DANIEL, 23, of Bay City, MI — booked 2:53 PM

ODUGUWA, MATTHEW PIKE, 33, of Shakopee, MN — booked 5:45 PM

No criminal complaints have been filed as of this posting. This post will be updated as charges and court dates are confirmed through Minnesota Court Records Online.

⚖️ All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Details are sourced from the Hennepin County Jail Roster and Minnesota Court Records Online (MCRO), including the filed criminal complaint.

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08/23/2026

🚨 96 people were booked into the Hennepin County Jail in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Thursday, August 20, 2026.

Data is sourced from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s official public records. Booking photos obtained from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office public booking records. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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08/19/2026

🚨 87 people were booked into the Hennepin County Jail in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.

Data is sourced from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s official public records. Booking photos obtained from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office public booking records. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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08/19/2026

CASE UPDATE: FEEDING OUR FUTURE DEFENDANT AND JACOB FREY'S FORMER AIDE ARRESTED AGAIN — THIS TIME FOR FENTANYL, DAYS BEFORE HIS FEDERAL SENTENCING

Booking Date: August 16, 2026

Original Case: DWI Refusal — released on conditions, $0 required
New Charge: Felony Fentanyl Possession

Original post in the comments 👇

NEW ARREST

On August 16, 2026, Minneapolis police are dispatched to the 700 block of 27th Avenue South on a report of a suspicious vehicle — parked in a no-parking zone for at least three hours, engine still running. Officers approach and find Abdi Nur Salah, 38, behind the wheel. According to the criminal complaint, he looks startled to see them, and there's a white powdery substance visible around his nose.

A warrant check turns up the reason he's about to have a very bad night: an active bench warrant out of his DWI case, issued August 4 after he allegedly stopped following the terms that got him released in the first place — missing contact with probation, skipping a required substance use evaluation, and failing to show up for random testing. He's arrested.

A search of the vehicle turns up roughly 1.51 grams of a white powdery substance on a piece of paper, which field-tests positive for fentanyl (a preliminary result, not yet lab-confirmed). Later, at the jail, an officer reportedly finds a substantial amount of additional white powdery residue on the back seat of the squad car — where Salah had been sitting during transport. That's collected too.

Two days later, Hennepin County prosecutors file a new felony charge: fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance.

BACKGROUND

Salah picked up the DWI case on July 11, weaving on I-94 before refusing a court-ordered blood or urine test. Full story on that arrest is in our original post, linked in the comments.

Salah also pleaded guilty in January 2025 to wire fraud for his role in the Feeding Our Future scheme — the roughly $250 million pandemic-era child nutrition fraud case, one of the largest prosecuted in the country. He's a former senior policy aide to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and is due back in federal court on August 25 for sentencing in that case.

Side note and interesting connection: Abdi Nur Salah’s brother is Abdulkadir Nur Salah who is identified as a co-owner and operator of Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis, a site that received more than $16 million in fraudulent Federal Child Nutrition Program funds.

CASE STATUS

*DWI Case*
Original bail: $12,000
Current: $12,000 no conditions, or $0 with an expanded conditions list (chemical dependency evaluation, random testing, no contact with alcohol or controlled substances, ongoing probation contact)

*Fentanyl Case*
Original bail: $3,000 with conditions
Current: $3,000 no conditions, or $0 with conditions (same category of terms — evaluation, random testing, no drugs/alcohol, probation contact)

As of the most recent jail roster update, Salah remains listed in custody, though conditional release has now been ordered in both cases.

Salah made his first appearance in the new fentanyl case today, August 19, 2026. He's due back for an omnibus hearing in that case on October 5, a pre-trial hearing in the DWI case on September 16 — and, six days from now, back in federal court to learn his sentence in the Feeding Our Future case.

⚖️ All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Details are sourced from the Hennepin County Jail Roster and Minnesota Court Records Online (MCRO), including the filed criminal complaint. Additional background sourced from the federal court docket (PACER), U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota.

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08/19/2026

HE VIOLATED PAROLE AND FLED TO ILLINOIS. HE WAS EXTRADITED BACK TO MINNESOTA. NOW A JUDGE HAS DENIED HIS BID TO THROW OUT HIS SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE — AND HIS TRIAL STARTS TOMORROW.

Edward Keith Dembry, 34, is set to stand trial starting tomorrow, August 19, 2026, on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct — more than seven months after Hennepin County prosecutors say he sexually assaulted a woman he'd been in an on-and-off relationship with for roughly 15 years.

According to the criminal complaint, the woman told Bloomington police that Dembry allegedly assaulted her at his apartment on January 1, 2026, using force and causing injury — allegations that align with the two felony counts prosecutors ultimately filed: pe*******on accomplished by force, and separately, pe*******on accomplished by coercion that caused her injury. The complaint also notes Dembry has a prior conviction for first-degree criminal sexual conduct from 2016 and is required to register as a predatory offender (a public sex-offender registration status).

Dembry wasn't in custody when the complaint was filed on January 15, 2026 — officers noted his whereabouts were unknown and said he posed a danger to public safety. A judge signed a warrant for his arrest that day, executable nationwide, and set bail at $750,000, with conditions barring contact with the victim, weapons possession, and drug or alcohol use.

Court records tell the rest of the story. Dembry was on parole for that 2016 conviction when this case was filed — and he violated the terms of his parole by leaving Minnesota entirely. He was arrested in Illinois on February 3, 2026, and extradited back to Minnesota two weeks later. He's been in state custody ever since, held at a Department of Corrections facility on the parole violation — separate from, and in addition to, the bail set in this case.

Dembry pleaded not guilty to both counts on May 28, 2026, and demanded a speedy trial the same day, starting a 60-day clock for the state to bring the case to trial. That deadline came and went. Getting Dembry from a Department of Corrections facility to Hennepin County for trial required the state to file a specific court order authorizing his transport — and according to court records, prosecutors repeatedly failed to file it on time, derailing a planned July 22 trial date. The court ultimately pushed the trial to August 17, landing 21 days past the original deadline, with part of the added delay also tied to defense counsel's own schedule.

Dembry's attorney moved to dismiss the case outright, arguing the delay violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial. On August 10, 2026, the judge disagreed and denied the motion. The court's written order found the state was at fault for the delay but that it wasn't deliberate — and, critically, that Dembry hadn't been harmed by it: he was already in custody on the unrelated parole violation, not because of this case, and his own key defense witness remained available to testify despite a scheduling conflict.

Jury selection got underway today, August 18, 2026. Barring further delay, testimony in Dembry's trial on both first-degree criminal sexual conduct counts is set to begin tomorrow.

PRIOR CONVICTIONS
2016 — First-degree criminal sexual conduct (pe*******on, force/coercion causing injury) for a 2015 offense. Sentenced May 13, 2016, to 180 months (15 years) committed to the Commissioner of Corrections, with credit for 438 days already served and 10 years of conditional release supervision (a mandatory post-prison supervision period required under Minnesota's sex-offender sentencing law) to follow after confinement — the same conditional release period he's now accused of violating by leaving the state. Two additional charges from that case, third-degree criminal sexual conduct and second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, were dismissed.
(Additional convictions may exist beyond what's cited in this complaint.)

⚖️ All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Details are sourced from the Hennepin County Jail Roster and Minnesota Court Records Online (MCRO), including the filed criminal complaint.

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08/19/2026

HE TOLD POLICE HE DIDN'T STEAL ANY UNDERWEAR. THEY SAY THEY FOUND 39 PAIRS IN HIS BACKPACK.

On the night of August 16, 2026, someone connected to the Denn Apartments on 13th Avenue Southeast in Minneapolis is watching the building through a live camera feed — and sees a man in checkered shorts who doesn't belong there.

According to the criminal complaint, the witness watches him break into the building, take two packages, and start going through clothes in the laundry room. He gives officers a description. University of Minnesota police respond and spot a man matching it standing in a doorway, visible through a glass panel. He's taken into custody without incident.

Right where he's handcuffed: a pair of checkered shorts.

Officers search him and find a pocket knife. Inside the pocket of those shorts, a powdery substance that field-tests positive for methamphetamine (a preliminary test, not yet confirmed by a lab) — a schedule II controlled substance. He's carrying a backpack. Inside it, multiple syringes.

And 39 pairs of men's and women's underwear.

Surveillance footage fills in the rest. Investigators say it shows the man, identified as Jacob Marshall Stanley, 48, walking into the building's mail room and pocketing the two packages before heading to the laundry room, where he allegedly pulls items from dryers and laundry baskets. He uses a knife to wedge a door. He changes clothes. He moves a couch and drapes clothing over a security camera to block the view. Then he heads upstairs with a bike he finds along the way, leans it against a wall, and walks out an exit door — right into the officers waiting for him.

Read his Miranda rights, Stanley agrees to talk. He tells officers he doesn't live in the building. He says he moved a small box in the mail room. He says the bike had been sitting on the steps and he simply moved it out of the way. He denies stealing any underwear.

He does tell officers he wears women's underwear.

Later, police get a voicemail from a tenant of the building. She says someone went through her clothing and her boyfriend's, and that all of her underwear had been taken from a laundry pile. The items she describes as missing match some of what officers recovered from the backpack.

Stanley is charged with second-degree burglary of a dwelling and possession of burglary or theft tools — two felonies. Hennepin County prosecutors filed the complaint today, August 18, 2026. Bail is set at $150,000, cash or bond, with no additional conditions listed.

He's due in court tomorrow, August 19, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. downtown for his first appearance.

⚖️ All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Details are sourced from the Hennepin County Jail Roster and Minnesota Court Records Online (MCRO), including the filed criminal complaint.

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