A 20-year-old woman has been charged with third-degree murder after she allegedly arranged the sale of counterfeit fentanyl pills that killed an 18-year-old woman in Blaine nearly two years ago, according to a criminal complaint filed in Anoka County.
Madison Marie Sellers faces one count of third-degree murder for selling or distributing a controlled substance that caused the death. A warrant has been issued for her arrest and her whereabouts are currently unknown.
On June 14, 2024, around 3:20 p.m., officers responded to a suspected overdose on the 50 block of 90th Avenue in Blaine, the complaint said. They found the 18-year-old woman dead inside the residence and contacted the Anoka County Medical Examiner and the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office criminal investigations division.
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A witness who reported the overdose told detectives the woman had consumed several blue pills the night before and started snoring. The next morning, the witness saw the woman was not breathing and called 911.
Crime scene detectives found a round light blue pill near the woman’s body with the markings of an “M” inside a square on one side and “30” on the other, consistent with counterfeit fentanyl. More of the same pills were found in a nightstand. A lab analysis later confirmed the pills were counterfeit fentanyl.
The Anoka County Medical Examiner concluded in July 2024 that the cause of death was the toxic effects of fentanyl.
Detectives forensically examined the woman’s phone and found Facebook messages between her and Sellers arranging the purchase of fentanyl pills. In messages from June 12 and 13, 2024, the woman told Sellers her previous drug source had been indicted and she needed a new connection. Sellers told her not to discuss it over the phone and said she could get the pills through a contact. At the time, Sellers was living in a sober house.
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The woman agreed to send Sellers $200 through CashApp, which detectives later confirmed through search warrants. Sellers told the woman she would have to lie to her drug source about what the money was for because the source “don’t f*** with the blues,” the complaint said. The two agreed to meet the following day.
On June 13, Sellers and her boyfriend picked up the woman in Fridley and drove to the home of Sellers’ cousin in south Minneapolis, according to the complaint. Sellers made her boyfriend wait in the car while she and the woman went inside.
At 1:49 a.m. on June 14, the woman messaged Sellers about the pills, writing that they “blew my mfkn mind.” Sellers responded, “Ob they fire ash.” Hours later, the woman was found dead.
In a post-Miranda interview on Jan. 21, 2025, Sellers admitted she picked up the woman in Fridley and drove her to a home in Minneapolis where the woman got the fentanyl. She denied involvement in the sale itself. When a detective confronted her with the Facebook messages contradicting her account, she replied, “F***. That’s weird. That’s so f***ing weird.”
Sellers told the detective the early-morning messages about the pills being “fire” were not about fentanyl but “something else.” She couldn’t recall or refused to say what that something else was.
The criminal complaint was filed on April 14, 2026, nearly two years after the woman’s death. It was also Sellers’ 20th birthday.
If convicted, Sellers faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison.
