On November 14, 2011, federal court judge Joan N. Ericksen sentenced two men for a home invasion and killing in St. Paul, MN. According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the two men were convicted of killing a man, a woman, and the woman’s daughter after breaking into the home to look for drugs and [...]
Tags: drug-trafficking, drugs, fbi, federal court, firearm, minnesota federal district court, murder, ramsey county, st. paulOn July 1, 2011, Minnesota’s new drug laws took effect. We blogged about this most recently on June 17. One of the goals of the Minnesota’s amended drug laws included making synthetic drugs illegal. (It looks like the Revisor of Statutes hasn’t updated the website yet—is this part of Minnesota’s government shut down?) The amendments [...]
Tags: bath salt, drugs, felony, mephedrone, narcotic, plant food, possession, prosecuteMinnesota’s drug laws are about to get a few changes effective July 1. Some of these changes come as Minnesota youth are using synthetic marijuana and designer drugs. Governor Dayton signed the bill into law in May. In March, we blogged about the Blaine overdose where the synthetic drug “2C-E” or “Europa” had led to [...]
Tags: 2C-E, amendments, bath salts, crimes, drugs, Europa, MDPV, methylenedioxypyrovalerone, minnesota, owi, statutes, synthetic, synthetic marijuanaYes, you do look like a fool with your pants on the ground, and having an office pull them up does not constitute as a search. I must give credit where credit is due; I did not come up with the title to this post. It was the Minnesota State Bar Association. Picture this, a [...]
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