A man already wanted on outstanding warrants for possessing a machine gun and drug charges threw a loaded handgun while running from officers in Saint Paul last week, according to a criminal complaint.
Walter Deangelo Green, 26, of Minneapolis, faces charges of second-degree drug possession with a firearm and felon in possession in Ramsey County. He was previously convicted of a third-degree controlled substance offense in 2023, making him ineligible to possess firearms or ammunition.
Hennepin County detectives were conducting surveillance on Green on March 24 in an effort to arrest him on active warrants out of Le Sueur County, charging him with possession of a machine gun and second-degree drug possession. The following day, around 11:30 a.m. on March 25, officers spotted a black Nissan Rogue they had seen during the previous day's surveillance pulling into a parking lot near Arlington Avenue in Saint Paul.
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Green was in the driver's seat with another man. As officers moved squad cars into position with emergency lights activated, both men fled on foot.
Officers chased Green west on Arlington Avenue and watched him throw a firearm into the air, the court documents say. The gun landed in the grass on the south side of the street. Officers recovered the Glock 27 .40-caliber handgun with a round in the chamber and a loaded magazine. The other man was caught and taken into custody on his own outstanding warrants.
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Officers eventually caught Green and arrested him. At the jail, Green tried to slip his handcuffs to the front of his body and was found manipulating a sock. A search of his jacket and the area turned up about half an ounce of suspected cocaine, and the drugs field-tested positive.
Green was still in custody at the Ramsey County Jail as of publication and is scheduled to appear in court on the new charges on April 14.
