The following is based on your complainant’s review of the reports of other officers and your complainant’s own investigation: In spring 2026, the Hennepin County Violent Offender Task Force received information that the defendant, LEVARGES LENARD BROWN ([DOB REDACTED]), was selling cocaine in and around St. Paul using an apartment on Maryland Ave. And a home on Duchess St., both in St. Paul, Ramsey County. Warrants were obtained to search the two sites, as well as the defendant himself. The warrants were executed on May 18. Traffic Stop At about 11:30am that day, the defendant and a woman known to be his girlfriend were observed exiting the home on Duchess and leaving the scene in a Toyota Sequioa, with the defendant driving.
A traffic stop was conducted. The defendant was taken into custody. When asked whether he was carrying anything, he gestured to his pants pocket. In the pocket were three plastic bags, each containing suspected cocaine, both in bags and in nearly 50 bindles for apparent sale. In the defendant’s other front pants pocket were several thousand dollars in cash. In the Sequoia was a plastic grocery bag containing a bundle of blue exam gloves, along with plastic tear- offs containing a white powdery residue.
In the center console of the vehicle was the defendant’s wallet, inside of which were an additional several thousand dollars. In separate presumptive tests, the substance contained in the three bags recovered from the defendant’s pocket tested positive for the presence of cocaine. The contents of the bindles from his pocket were not tested. The total weight of the recovered cocaine was more than 100 grams. Apartment on Maryland The defendant’s girlfriend told officers that she lives at the home on Duchess; she provided a key to it.
She was allowed to leave the scene. She drove directly to the apartment on Maryland. A search was conducted at the apartment. In the living room was a plastic bag containing more than 1,600 pills, as well as mail in the defendant’s name. On a bedroom shelf was a loaded 9mm handgun. The items were photographed and recovered. In a presumptive test, the pills tested positive for the presence of fentanyl. Home on Duchess A search was conducted at the home on Duchess. In the closet of a second-floor bedroom, officers found: a second loaded 9mm handgun; a large amount of suspected cocaine inside of a bag, a box, and a shoebox (the last of these in the form of three bricks); a locked safe, inside of which was a third loaded handgun, two more magazines, and several boxes of ammunition.
In a dresser in that same bedroom were several thousand dollars in cash, as well as several Moneygram receipts with the defendant as the sender. (The defendant’s girlfriend later told an investigator that this cash 3 ••-CR-••-•••• Filed in District Court State of Minnesota 5/26/2026 was his and not hers.) All of these items were photographed and recovered. In separate presumptive tests, the substance contained in the bag, box, and shoebox tested positive for the presence of cocaine. The net weight of the cocaine in the bag and box was more than 1,000 grams and nearly 250 grams, respectively.
