Jjava Jemal Napoleon

On May 5, 2026, officers on patrol in a marked police vehicle in the area of 30th Ave N and Dupont Ave N, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, observed a black Nissan Altima with no license plates pull a U- turn and suspected that the vehicle was trying to avoid law enforcement. Officers observed a male driver and female passenger. As the officers turned their squad car to investigate further, the Nissan accelerated rapidly north into an alley between Emerson Ave N and Fremont Ave N. The officers observed a cloud of dust indicating that the Nissan was driving at a high rate of speed.

As the officers cleared the alley, the officers observed that the Nissan had exited the alley and was accelerating north onto Fremont Ave N and crossing Lowry Ave. Freemont Ave N is a one-way and the Nissan was driving at a high rate of speed going the wrong way in traffic. The Nissan blew through Lowry Ave N without stopping. The officers did not pursue the Nissan due to public safety concerns. The officers radioed for other officers to look for the Nissan. Another officer located the Nissan in the area of 36th Ave and Penn Ave N. The officer activated emergency lights.

The Nissan did not stop and instead went down off a retaining wall in between two apartment buildings and continued northbound without stopping. The vehicle was located by Minneapolis police parked in front of [ADDRESS REDACTED] N. Police located a male and female walking away from the vehicle. Officers recognized the female as the passenger. The male was identified as JJAVA JEMAL NAPOLEON, DEFENDANT herein. In a search incident to arrest, officers recovered 28.05 grams of field-tested positive methamphetamine from the DEFENDANT's bag.

In a post-Miranda statement, the DEFENDANT admitted that he was the driver of the Nissan. He admitted to seeing the squad car, getting scared, and driving off. The DEFENDANT admitted driving off road on 36th. The DEFENDANT admitted that the drugs recovered from his bag were methamphetamine. The DEFENDANT has a prior controlled substance conviction in Court File No. ••-CR-••-••••. The DEFENDANT is currently in custody.