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WASHINGTON/MINNEAPOLIS (KFGO) – The U.S. Dept. of Justice will increase the work of the FBI across the country to address unresolved violent crimes in Indian Country, including crimes relating to missing and murdered Indigenous persons.
The FBI will send 60 personnel, rotating in 90-day temporary duty assignments, over a six-month period, in the longest and most intense national deployment of FBI resources to address Indian Country crime to date. FBI personnel will support field offices, including the FBI in Minneapolis in partnership with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal law enforcement.
The Minneapolis FBI field office has jurisdiction on most reservations in Minnesota and the Dakotas.
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