On April 24, 2026, Ozzy, a drug-sniffing canine at the airport, alerted to a package addressed to Thomas Newey at [ADDRESS REDACTED], St. Paul, Ramsey County. Officers obtained and executed a search warrant on the package. The package contained 18 pounds of cocaine. Officers removed the drugs from the package. One of the packages inside the box tested positive for the presence of cocaine. Officers placed 135.2 grams from that package back inside the package along with sham product to represent the rest of the drugs.
Officers discovered that JACOB ROBERT MARHOUN [DOB REDACTED] and GABRIELA VIRGINIA ROSARIO [DOB REDACTED] were associated with [ADDRESS REDACTED]. Officers obtained an anticipatory search warrant and made arrangements for an undercover officer to deliver the package to [ADDRESS REDACTED]. At around 12:50 PM on April 24, 2026, an undercover officer delivered the package to the front door at [ADDRESS REDACTED] and rang the doorbell. Marhoun exited, grabbed the package, and took it inside. Officers executed the warrant and arrested both Marhoun and Rosario inside [ADDRESS REDACTED]. Officers recovered the package that had just been delivered, a FedEx bag that contained several heat and 34 vacuum sealed bags of white powder in the basement laundry room, a Glock handgun on a basement shelf, and $9000 in cash in Rosario’s purse in the kitchen.
Officers found a drug packaging and money counting operation in the kitchen. Two of the vacuum sealed bags recovered from the residence tested positive for the presence of cocaine and weighed a combined total of 56.0 grams without packaging. The rest of the 32 packages weighed a total of 998 grams or 2.20 pounds in its packaging. The Glock contained a loaded magazine. Marhoun declined a custodial statement. Rosario was advised of her constitutional rights and agreed to speak to police. She denied living at [ADDRESS REDACTED], and she said she hasn’t been able to pay her mortgage, so she let Marhoun live there.
She said she only stopped by to smoke marijuana with Marhoun. When asked about the cash in her purse Rosario said she is sort of a banker and helps people by saving it. Rosario said she helped a friend make money, so he gave her the money in her purse. When confronted with the inherent contradiction about not being able to pay her mortgage but being in possession of $9000, Rosario accused officers of twisting her words, and she terminated the interview. Marhoun has 4 prior felony convictions: threats of violence, VOCSL 3, and 2 for possession of a firearm by an ineligible person.
The gun and drug convictions are violent crimes pursuant to Minnesota Statute 609.1095, subd. 1(d).
