Mario Montez Morehead

On December 17, 2025, the Honorable Der Yang signed a search warrant authorizing law enforcement to search [APT REDACTED] at [ADDRESS REDACTED], St. Paul, Ramsey County as part of a narcotics investigation. At around 9:00 AM on December 19, 2025, officers executed the warrant. Officers found the defendant, MARIO MONTEZ MOREHEAD [DOB REDACTED], was the only person inside [APT REDACTED] when the warrant was executed. The defendant was detained. In a bedroom officers found a blue rubber glove with a napkin and baggie inside it on a shelf.

The baggie contained a white, crystal substance. On the shelf next to the rubber glove was a prescription bottle in Morehead’s name. The contents of the baggie recovered from the rubber glove tested positive for the presence of fentanyl and weighed 18.65 grams. Morehead committed this offense while pending trial on an assault in the second degree involving a firearm in Ramsey County District Court file ••-CR-••-••••.