On or around July 20, 2025, at approximately 2:19 A.M., a Renville County deputy was on routine patrol in the city of Danube when he observed a white Chevrolet Equinox making a moving violation. The deputy attempted a traffic stop, but the Equinox fled. Officers conducted a pursuit and ultimately were able to stop the vehicle in the City of Redwood Falls. The driver had fled. The female front seat passenger was still present. She was identified as MLE. Officers searched the Equinox and recovered a digital scale with suspected methamphetamine residue, a green pouch with a crystalline substance on the floor in the backseat, two phones, and a safe inside of a green suitcase which was in the backseat.
Officers later secured a warrant for the safe. They used a barrel key that had been with the vehicle keys to open the safe. Inside, they found 9 bags of suspected methamphetamine. A representative sample field tested positive. Most of the bags were approximately one pound. The total weight is approximately 8.5 pounds or 3,927.29 grams (with packaging). Investigators were able to identify the driver of the vehicle as DJT. He is also the registered owner of the vehicle. MLE provided a statement that she and DJT had traveled to Minnesota from Sioux Falls the morning of July 19. They traveled toward Minneapolis in the Equinox.
When they made it to Minneapolis, they stopped at a brown house and DJT went inside. He brought a safe inside with him that held $18,000 cash. She also eventually went inside where she saw several packages of drugs shaped like blocks. She saw DJT putting drugs into a bag. They used some methamphetamine inside the house before DJT told her to go back to the car. DJT eventually returned to the car, at which point the two were going to drive back to Sioux Falls. It was during their return that the Deputy tried to stop the vehicle and DJT fled.
She said the phones recovered in the Equinox belonged to DJT. Your complainant learned that the Sioux Falls Police Department had received a judicial order allowing them to attach a GPS tracker to the Equinox prior to this incident. Your complainant received the location data for July 19. The tracker data showed that the vehicle left Sioux Falls around 8:53 A.M. The vehicle eventually traveled to the 3000 block of Logan Avenue North in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. MLE was shown images of that block and confirmed the house she saw was at [address omitted]. This is a brown home.
Officers arrested DJT on July 22. He was in possession of another cell phone at the time of his arrest. Officers obtained a search warrant to extract the data from this phone. The data showed multiple communications with a phone number ending 7293 with the contact name “Long For Short.” Your complainant learned that this phone number is used by GEI XIONG, DEFENDANT herein. DEFENDANT is on probation for a 1st Degree Drug Offense (••-CR-••-••••). He has this phone number registered with probation, and his listed address is [address omitted]. Starting on July 18, there appear to be multiple text messages between DEFENDANT and DJT arranging a drug transaction.
