A 34-year-old Golden Valley man already in custody at the Sherburne County jail faces new felony charges after staff repeatedly found drugs hidden on his body, including fentanyl stashed in his hair and a bag of drugs pulled from his sock.
Percy Edward Jackson faces charges of second-degree controlled substance possession, fifth-degree possession and introducing contraband into a jail. The charges were filed Wednesday in Sherburne County District Court.
According to the criminal complaint, jail staff observed Jackson flushing controlled substances down the toilet in his cell. Staff removed him from the cell and searched him, finding two bindles of a grey substance on his person. The substance tested positive for fentanyl and weighed about 0.16 ounces with packaging.
Around 11 a.m. that same day, Jackson was transported to Mercy Hospital in Sherburne County for an unrelated matter. When he returned to the jail that afternoon, staff found two more bindles hidden in his hair. One contained buprenorphine and naloxone weighing about 0.05 ounces and the other contained fentanyl weighing about 0.05 ounces, the complaint says.
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The next day, Jackson asked to speak with law enforcement. When an investigator met with him inside the jail, Jackson pulled a plastic bag from his sock containing an unknown substance and handed it over. Testing confirmed it contained cocaine, fentanyl and xylazine weighing about 0.23 ounces, according to court records.
Lab confirmation testing by Midwest Regional Lab in January 2026 verified the substances across all seizures: about 0.15 ounces of cocaine, fentanyl and xylazine from the initial cell search, about 0.04 ounces of the same mixture from his hair, about 0.04 ounces of buprenorphine and naloxone from the other hair bindle and about 0.12 ounces of cocaine, fentanyl and xylazine from the sock bag.
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Jackson has a lengthy criminal history across multiple counties. In January 2026, he was charged in Hennepin County with first-degree drug sale and possession of fentanyl and heroin along with two counts of felon in possession of a firearm after officers responding to a shots-fired call at his Golden Valley apartment found about 48.5 pounds of suspected fentanyl and heroin mix, about 5.3 ounces of fentanyl powder, over 22 pounds of marijuana, a stolen Glock pistol, an AR-style pistol with no serial number, more than 264 rounds of ammunition and $4,081 in cash.
In November 2024, he was charged with first-degree drug sale after a Richfield traffic stop turned up about 2.2 pounds of marijuana, 34 individually packaged baggies and about 2.7 ounces of psilocybin mushrooms. He admitted the drugs were not for personal use. He also has two prior fifth-degree drug possession convictions from 2023, a misdemeanor domestic assault case from June 2025 and a pending extradition case tied to felony forgery and counterfeit document charges in Carroll County, Maryland.
The second-degree possession charge carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. The introducing contraband charge carries up to five years and a $10,000 fine.
