On November 20, 2025, at 8:21 P.M. Officer Sorenson with the Glenwood Police Department was dispatched to a business in Glenwood for a welfare check as the wife of the business owner, AZ, said her husband had missed a school concert for their children and was not answering his cell phone. Officer Sorenson, assisted by other law enforcement officers, entered the office and saw AZ seated in an office chair with his head laying on the desk. A blue container holding a white powdery substance was on the desk near AZ’ s head.
Numerous items were nearby the powdery substance that were consistent with the use of illegal controlled substances. Officers moved AZ away from the desk and onto the floor. Officers observed that AZ’s pupils were pinpoint and his breathing was labored. Officers observed that AZ’s skin was turning purple. Officers administered four doses of Narcan to AZ and performed CPR on him. AZ was transported by ambulance to the hospital and was later transported by air ambulance to St. Cloud hospital. A search warrant was obtained and executed at AZ’s office resulting in the recovery of two cell phones and two baggies of a white powdery substance that tested positive for cocaine with a collective weight of 23.48 grams.
On November 26, 2025, AZ contacted Officer Bailey with the Glenwood Police Department asking about his cellphones. AZ wished to talk about the events that led to his overdose. AZ said he would cooperate with law enforcement’s investigation. AZ said the purpose of his second phone was to talk with other women and to communicate with individuals for the purpose of purchasing illegal controlled substances. The defendant provided a list of five names of people from whom he purchased illegal controlled substances including the name “Katie Ortez” (subsequently identified by law enforcement through investigative techniques as Keiry Ortiz Sanchez, [DOB REDACTED], defendant herein.
Officers identified the defendant through a reverse phone number search from the number AZ was using to text the defendant. Officers confirmed the defendant’s identify by comparing her DVS photograph to photos and video of the defendant that AZ had on his phone. Officers executed a search warrant on the phone used by AZ to set up the purchase of controlled substances. AZ said on November 20, 2025, the same date AZ overdosed, he arranged to meet the defendant in the parking lot of Target in Monticello, Wright County, Minnesota, to purchase a quantity of cocaine and Percocet pills that contain Fentanyl, a Schedule II controlled substance.
AZ said he met with the defendant on November 20, 2025, in the Target parking lot around 12:45 to 1:30 P.M. AZ said the defendant sold him a quantity of cocaine and 15 to 20 pills of Percocet containing Fentanyl in the Target parking lot. AZ said the defendant got in his vehicle to sell him the drugs. Text messages exchanged between AZ and the defendant set the price for the purchase of the Percocet pills at $1,250 and the cocaine at $1,200. AZ said the cocaine he purchased from the defendant was the cocaine found in his office when he overdosed.
