SHOCKING: FBI & DEA Storm Somali Drug Tunnels Under Minnesota — 3.8 Tons Cocaine Seized | FBI Files

February 14th, 2023. 7:47 a.m., FBI Minneapolis Field Office. Special Agent Director Rebecca Thornton steps to the podium. Her face is stone. Behind her, a projected slide shows three words in red block letters: Operation Frozen Vein. She speaks slowly. “In the past seventy-two hours, federal agencies executed the largest coordinated underground narcotics interdiction operation in Minnesota history.

We have seized 3.8 tons of pure cocaine, dismantled twelve active drug tunnels beneath Minneapolis and St. Paul, arrested forty-seven individuals connected to a Somali drug trafficking cartel, and identified a criminal logistics network that has operated undetected for nearly six years.”