WCCO is working to learn more about a federal immigration enforcement operation on Wednesday afternoon in northern Minnesota.

St. Louis County Sheriff Gordon Ramsay said agents with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Border Patrol joined members of the Lake Superior Violent Offenders Task Force during a drug bust at a Hibbing restaurant off East 18th Street and Third Avenue East just after noon.

Ramsay said one person was arrested for selling cocaine and illegal firearm possession as part of an ongoing investigation that began last month. The suspect was "also in possession of several fake identification documents," according to Ramsay.

But after the arrest, a restaurant employee told Northern News Now ICE a

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