No Charges Yet in Drug Raid at Fridley Terrace

Four people arrested in a raid Tuesday at manufactured-home park have been released from Anoka County Jail without being charged, according to the Anoka County Attorney's office. 

Law enforcement officers from several agencies were on hand Tuesday afternoon

Fridley Police Capt. Bob Rewitzer described the incident this way in an email:

"During the afternoon of January 10, 2012 Fridley Police Officers provided support to the Anoka-Hennepin Narcotics and Violent Crime Task Force and the Carver County Sheriff's Office in the execution of a search warrant in the 7400 block of Oakley Street NE in Fridley. Four people were arrested and Fridley Police Officers transported them to the Anoka County Jail."

The three men and one woman arrested were from East Bethel, Ham Lake and Spring Lake Park, Rewitzer said.

All were arrested on suspicion of fifth-degree possession of a controlled substance, a felony, according to Rewitzer, with one of the men jailed also on a warrant for felony DUI and for allegedly providing a false name to a police officer.

Anoka County Assistant County Attorney Jessica L. Rugani said by email:

"None of these cases were submitted for charging yet, all released with possible charges to come."

Note: Fridley Patch does not ordinarily name people arrested for crimes until they have been formally charged.

Sentencing in Fridley Federal Sting
In a separate case involving drug arrests in Fridley this week, a federal judge sentenced three people Tuesday for buying and trying to buy cocaine and methampetamine from federal agents.

The "controlled sales" took place in Fridley in 2010 and 2011, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's office.

Exactly where in Fridley the deals happened is unclear.

Jeanne Cooney, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office, said by email that the only reference in public court documents is to the “City of Fridley.”

None of the three people sentenced lives in Fridley.

The details, according to the statement:

"United States District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis sentenced Marlon Cristobal Ramos-Ortiz, age 26, of Brooklyn Center, to 63 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to distribute 50 or more of methamphetamine and five kilograms of cocaine; Jose Hugo Vazquez-Rodriguez, age 35, of Burnsville, to 87 months on one count of distribution of 50 or more grams of methamphetamine; and Rosalba Velazquez-Ramos, age 47, also of Brooklyn Center, to 108
months on one count of conspiracy. ...

"In her plea agreement, Velazquez-Ramos admitted conspiring with the others to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine. In addition, she admitted obtaining the drugs from various suppliers and then distributing them to customers in the Twin Cities area. Those customers included federal undercover agents, who, on October 28, 2010, in Brooklyn Center, were sold 111.33 grams of methamphetamine, and on November 16, 2010, in Fridley, were sold 430.37 grams of methamphetamine. On March 3, 2011, in Fridley, Velazquez-Ramos and Ramos-Ortiz also attempted to purchase approximately 15 kilograms of cocaine from uncover law
enforcement officers, intending to sell five kilograms to Vazquez-Rodriguez. ...

"This case was the result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the Southwest Metro Drug Task Force."

Fridley police were not involved, according to Cooney.