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Marine Vet Says Feds in Minneapolis Sampled His DNA and Cloned His Phone Without Warrant

HeadlineFeb 13, 2026

In more news from Minneapolis, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan says federal agents unlawfully sampled his DNA, scanned his face and cloned his phone after detaining him as he stood on the sidewalk observing their movements. Steven Saari had gone to the scene of Alex Pretti’s killing less than an hour after Border Patrol agents fired the fatal shots, with a lawfully owned pistol on his hip. He says he was mobbed by federal agents and brought to the Whipple Federal Building, where he was denied access to a lawyer and detained for six hours before his release without charges. Saari told The Intercept that federal agents took scans and samples of his biometric data and made a copy of his phone — all without obtaining a warrant.

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