On or about January 16, 2026, officers with the Mille Lacs Tribal Police Department were notified of a stolen vehicle alert generated by a license plate reader (“LPR”). The suspect vehicle, a 2007 Ford F-150, MN license plate #[PLATE REDACTED], had been observed traveling southbound on U. S. 169 just north of the Mille Lacs Grand Casino. An officer located the vehicle, parked and unoccupied, in the Grand Casino parking lot. He confirmed that the vehicle’s status was listed as “stolen” in his computer system, and contacted casino security personnel to determine who had exited the vehicle.
Casino security advised that three individuals—a male and two females—had previously exited the vehicle and were currently inside the casino playing slot machines. The officer then received from dispatch a photograph of the suspected driver of the stolen vehicle. The officer provided the photograph to casino security personnel, who positively identified the male as the same individual who had exited from the front driver’s-side of the truck. The driver was identified as TREVOR XAVIER-FRANKLIN POWERS [DOB REDACTED], the defendant herein.
Officers then entered the casino and made contact with POWERS and the two female individuals. The officers placed POWERS under arrest on suspicion of receiving stolen property and secured him in the prisoner compartment of a squad car. Officers recovered from POWERS’ person a single vehicle key bearing the Ford logo. That key successfully unlocked and started the Ford F-150 that had been reported as “stolen.” An officer later reviewed casino security footage, confirming that POWERS and the two females had arrived in the suspect vehicle, and that POWERS had been the driver.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes section 609.49, intentional failure to appear for duly scheduled court appearances may result in criminal charges in addition to any arrest warrant that the Court may otherwise issue.
