A man is charged with drug sale and possession after a drug task force found about 713 grams of a substance that field tested positive for methamphetamine in a vacuum-sealed bag during a March 19 search warrant at a Minneapolis residence, according to a Hennepin County complaint.
The man targeted by the warrant is charged with first-degree drug sale of 17 grams or more of cocaine or methamphetamine and first-degree possession of 50 grams or more of cocaine or methamphetamine. Each count is a felony. For each count the complaint lists two maximum penalties without saying which applies: 30 years under the standard first-degree penalty provision and 40 years under the provision for 100 grams or more. It also lists a minimum sentence of 65 months on each count.
Dion Ajais Omara, 49, was charged in a complaint filed Nov. 6 in Hennepin County District Court. A judge set bail at $100,000. A next court date is not stated in the complaint.
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The complaint outlines the following:
Members of the West Metro Drug Task Force executed a search warrant on or about March 19 at a residence in Minneapolis. The complaint says Omara was the target of the warrant and is known to law enforcement to traffic large amounts of narcotics. It says police took him into custody before executing the warrant as he was leaving the residence.
Police located nine items. One was a large vacuum-sealed bag holding a white crystalline substance weighing about 713 grams, which field tested positive for methamphetamine. Eight other items of white crystalline substance were on a living room table and weighed between about 17 grams and about 62 grams each. Three of the table items field tested positive for methamphetamine. The complaint says another appeared to be methamphetamine.
After receiving a Miranda warning, Omara told police the drugs in the residence were his, the complaint says. He said he sells methamphetamine, between a quarter pound and a pound at a time. He said he gives all of his money to a runner and had been back in the game for about two weeks.
The complaint says that when it was filed, Omara was in custody at the Hennepin County jail on other drug cases. The State requested a warrant in this case.
