On March 27, 2026, officers with the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport Police Department were conducting parcel interdiction at the UPS sorting facility located at [ADDRESS REDACTED] NE, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Officers located a parcel which was shipped from West Covina, California to M. A. At 723 N. 3rd Street, Apt. 208, Minneapolis. The officer developed multiple suspicions that the parcel contained a controlled substance and had her certified drug detection dog sniff it. The dog provided a positive alert to the odor of a controlled substance.
Officers then obtained a warrant for the parcel. When they executed the parcel warrant, they found three bricks containing 7.225 pounds of field-tested positive cocaine. Officers contacted the recipient address management company and obtained video footage for March 27. The video footage from 727 N. 3rd Street showed a male, identified as SANTOS FELIX, [DOB REDACTED], DEFENDANT herein, leaving room 206 and checking the mail room on five occasions. During his last visit to the mail room, it appears he enters the mail room immediately after the UPS driver dropped parcels there.
DEFENDANT was due to check out on March 27. On March 30, officers conducted a controlled delivery of the parcel at the delivery address, leaving representative sample of 116 grams of cocaine inside. Officers delivered the parcel around 1500 hours. DEFENDANT did not collect the parcel that day, but checked the mailroom before the parcel was delivered. Officers retrieved the parcel. On March 31, officers attempted the controlled delivery again. DEFENDANT entered the mailroom and retrieved the parcel containing cocaine.
He was taken into custody after exiting the mailroom. DEFENDANT asked officers to retrieve his property from room 206. Officers collected his personal items, including his phone. When speaking with DEFENDANT later, he unlocked the phone and officers saw a screen displaying the UPS tracking website with the parcel information. DEFENDANT is currently in custody.
