On September 2, 2025, at approximately 5:00 P.M., Minneapolis police officers responded to a report of a slumper in a running vehicle near 27th Street and Irving Ave S., in Hennepin County, Minnesota. When they arrived, Officers observed a woman, subsequently identified as ASIYA ABDULKHADER GELLE, hereafter Defendant, slumped forward in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. Officers also observed a piece of tinfoil with burnt residue on the center console. Based on their training and experience, officers knew that tinfoil with burnt residue is evidence of recent controlled substance use.
Defendant woke up, and officers initiated a search of the vehicle. Defendant admitted to using fentanyl. In searching the vehicle, officers recovered plastic tie-off bags with residual white powder, cut off straws, and another plastic tie off bag containing a white rocky substance, which officers suspected to be narcotics. These items were all located within reach of the driver’s seat. Defendant stated that the substance might be fentanyl. Because of the drug paraphernalia and suspected narcotics within Defendant’s reach from the driver’s seat, the tinfoil with burnt residue, and Defendant slumping over in the vehicle, officers arrested Defendant for driving while under the influence of a controlled substance.
Officers obtained a search warrant for Defendant’s blood sample. En route to the hospital, Defendant fell asleep again. Defendant’s blood sample was drawn pursuant to the warrant by Hennepin County Medical Center at approximately 7:00 P.M. And sealed in a BCA-approved test kit. In a report dated October 13, 2025, the BCA found that Defendant’s blood sample contained fentanyl and norfentanyl, a Schedule I or II controlled substance. On September 3, 2025, the rock substance weighed 0.26 grams and field-tested positive for fentanyl, a Schedule I or II controlled substance.
At present, Defendant is not in custody.
