A woman ran from officers on foot after being spotted at a Mahnomen school where police say she and two others were looking in windows, according to the complaint.
Danaiah Rose Goodwin, 23, faces a felony third-degree drug possession charge and a misdemeanor charge of fleeing a peace officer by a means other than a motor vehicle, filed October 12 in Mahnomen County District Court.
According to the complaint, an officer with the White Earth Tribal Police Department responded to a call about three unwanted people at Saint Michael’s Catholic School in Mahnomen on October 9. The officer saw three people on the property who immediately fled on foot when the patrol car arrived. One person stopped and was trespassed from the property, but the other two kept running.
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The complaint states the officer saw one of the fleeing people, dressed in grey sweatpants, a black hooded sweatshirt and red shoes, run into a privacy structure attached to the Valley View Apartments. Following the path, the officer found several items on the ground, including needles identified as drug paraphernalia and a small black purse.
Inside the purse, the officer found identification and cards belonging to Danaiah Rose Goodwin, along with more drug paraphernalia and an orange paper bindle containing a white powdery substance that field tested positive for methamphetamine.
Deputies from the Mahnomen County Sheriff’s Office joined the search and spoke with an investigator who had seen someone matching Goodwin’s description walking nearby. The deputies found Goodwin in a nearby alleyway, wearing clothing that matched the earlier description. The complaint says Goodwin was ordered to stop but continued to walk away until a deputy physically detained her by grabbing her arm.
Goodwin was arrested. Officers searched a second purse in her possession and found a blue plastic zip-top bag containing a white powdery substance, according to the complaint.
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