The moral of the story is that it's a lot easier to get justice when you are a friend of the local police chief.
But I like this last bit:
MPR News reached out to the Department of Homeland Security about the incident. A spokesperson responded by asking for the woman's name, date of birth and “A-number,” or alien number, which DHS uses to track non-citizens who are living in the United States. The woman is a U.S. citizen. To protect the woman from retaliation, MPR News did not provide that information to them. MPR news has not received any other response from DHS.
The newspaper reached out for comment about federal agents taking a citizen, and they didn't even listen.