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Minneapolis Main Post Office renamed in honor of late Rep. Martin Sabo
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota congressman’s decades of service were honored Monday morning in downtown Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis Main Post Office was renamed the “Rep. Martin Olav Sabo Post Office” to honor the late congressman, who passed away in 2016 at age 78.
Sabo, born in North Dakota in 1938, lived in Minneapolis most of his life. His political career spanned 46 years. He served in the Minnesota House for 18 years before being elected to Congress. He retired in 2006.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the champions of the name change, spoke at Monday’s ceremony.
“His real legacy lies in the countless lives he touched, the communities he uplifted, and the example of integrity he set for us all in public service,” Omar said.
His most notable achievements include major infrastructure projects like the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and Hiawatha Light Rail Line, now called the METRO Blue Line.
The Midtown Greenway Pedestrian Bridge in Minneapolis was also renamed in his honor.
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A 28-year-old St. Paul woman who admitted in federal court to assaulting law enforcement officers during a protest last year in South Minneapolis has been ordered to pay a $25 fine.
Isabel Lopez was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge John Tunheim in Minneapolis after accepting a plea agreement to a lesser misdemeanor charge of assaulting, resisting and impeding a U.S. officer in connection with a protest that broke out while authorities were executing a search warrant that a crowd mistook for an immigration raid in June 2025.
Lopez was originally charged by indictment with three felony counts of assaulting, resisting and impeding officers and one felony count of obstruction of law enforcement.
Lopez faced up to one year in prison on the misdemeanor conviction, however, the defense and prosecution both asked Tunheim for no prison time. The prosecution requested one year of probation, which Tunheim turned down.
According to court documents, law enforcement officers from multiple federal agencies were executing eight search warrants in the Twin Cities on June 3, 2025, related to an investigation into narcotics trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking and related offenses.
The investigation began with the discovery of 900 pounds of methamphetamine in a Burnsville storage unit, with a street value of between $22 million and $25 million.
Shortly after a search warrant execution began at Cuatro Milpas restaurant on Lake Street, a crowd began to gather.
“The crowd appeared to be under the mistaken belief that law enforcement was present to arrest individuals illegally present in the country for immigration offenses,” the criminal complaint said. “This was incorrect.”
After recognizing the apparent misunderstanding, law enforcement explained the nature of the search warrant to the crowd, according to prosecutors.
As part of her plea agreement, Lopez admitted to hitting an FBI SWAT agent with her arms and closed fist, and kicking another agent. The officers were not injured. As law enforcement attempted to leave the scene, Lopez threw a softball at the back of a Hennepin County sheriff’s deputy.
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