Saturday evening, leftover food is still stuck to the grill at Crumbs and Coffee in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

The workstation has been left uncleaned since Friday morning, when the co-owner of the coffee shop said that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials detained his cook after luring him outside into the parking lot. 

Marcio Luis De Morais said that he heard from another employee that ICE took Jorge Leonardo Vergara Rubio at around 9:30 a.m. 

According to his co-worker, two people had come into the coffee shop in civilian clothing and ordered drinks like "regular customers." The employee noticed that they took photos, possibly of Rubio, before leaving and waiting in their car outside. A half an hour later, another car arrived: De Morais said that he was told the occupants of that car came into the coffee shop claiming they had hit a parked car. It was Rubio's. 

"As soon as he walked outside, that's when they arrested him," De Morais said. 

Rubio's car is still sitting in the parking lot with no obvious signs of damage. De Morais believes the agents, later identified as ICE, lied in order to draw Rubio outside the store. 

Once Rubio was gone, the other employee at work that morning cleared the store and ran in a panic, according to De Morais. He showed up an hour later and locked up; he said that Saturday morning, another employee delivering supplies to the store may have forgotten to lock the doors. He said it's how Democratic State Sen. John Hoffman came across the scene, preserved from 24 hours earlier with a customer's sweater still on a chair and loose items on tables. 

Sen. Hoffman took to Facebook, detailing how he called the police to secure the store. 

"These are small business owners. Taxpayers. People who invested in our community, created jobs, and served their neighbors every day. Since when are they considered the 'worst of the worst?'" This isn't right," Hoffman wrote. "And it's not who we should be targeting if we care about safe, strong communities." 

The senator was likely referencing a Homeland Security press release on Friday, in which Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed the department's agents have "arrested more than 400 illegal aliens including pedophiles, rapists, and violent thugs since Operation Metro Surge began" earlier this month in the Twin Cities.

Brooklyn Park police confirmed that ICE had detained an employee. WCCO reached out to ICE to ask what charges Rubio faces and why he was detained but has not heard back. 

De Morais said that he wasn't sure of Rubio's status, but knew that he was checking in with authorities regularly. He said that Rubio had taken time off the in the past for court dates that he was told were related to his desire to achieve asylum status. 

What he's more sure of is that he's likely going to have to close down Crumbs and Coffee. He said it's already been difficult trying to keep his other restaurant ventures in the Twin Cities afloat given the fear that has gripped the metro; with employees afraid to come to work, he said he doesn't see how he can reopen the coffee shop that opened its doors just six months ago. 

"This one is done," De Morais said, "we are unfortunately are not going to reopen."