The former senior aide to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Feeding Our Future defendant No. 6 has now picked up a new felony drug charge. He had already pled guilty in the free-food fraud case back in January 2025.
The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad summer for Abdi Nur Salah, now aged 38, began last month. At 5 a.m. on July 11, a state trooper pulled Salah over on I-94 in Minneapolis for erratic driving. Salah refused a blood test, which resulted in a gross misdemeanor charge. He was released on $6,000 bail.
Apparently, Salah failed to turn up for mandatory drug testing and a warrant was issued on August 3.
He was found by city police on Sunday, August 16, parked in a no parking zone and covered in white powder, apparently fentanyl. Police found enough fentanyl in the vehicle to charge Salah with a fifth-degree felony possession count. In a court hearing held yesterday, his bail was upped to $12,000 on the July charge.
However, his status is still showing as “in custody” in the county jail with a federal hold. He faces a separate state bond hearing tomorrow (Wednesday) on the drug charge.
Given that this all took place in soft-on-crime Hennepin County, his real problem may be a block away in federal court.
His July charge triggered a probation violation report in his federal case. Salah’s sentencing on the fraud charge, scheduled for this month, was pushed back to October. He is currently scheduled to answer for the probation violation on August 31.
He is due back in state court on the county charges on September 16.
Something’s gotta give.