POLK COUNTY, Minn. — A Warren, Minnesota, man was sentenced Tuesday, July 2, to 86 months for committing a first-degree aggravated managed substance crime in Polk County.
Conner Douglas Anderson, 31, bought three ounces of methamphetamine to an undercover deputy in Might 2023, in keeping with a possible trigger assertion filed within the case.
Anderson first collected the cash, then officers noticed the place he went to get the methamphetamine. Throughout one of many two managed buys, officers noticed Anderson exit Minnesota and enter North Dakota, the assertion mentioned.
When Anderson returned to East Grand Forks to satisfy with the officer, he was arrested. It was found that Anderson bought methamphetamine from
in Grand Forks.
Anderson
pleaded guilty to the first-degree felony charge
in February.
The aggravated cost requires no less than two of the next aggravating components to be current: separate acts of sale or possession of methamphetamine in three or extra counties; switch of methamphetamine throughout a state or worldwide border into Minnesota; no less than three separate transactions through which methamphetamine was bought, transferred, or possessed with intent to promote or switch; or the particular person or their confederate possessed or bought methamphetamine in a park zone.
The crime has a compulsory minimal sentence of 86 months, which Anderson was granted by a plea settlement. The utmost sentence is 40 years.
Anderson additionally pleaded responsible to misdemeanor fourth-degree driving whereas impaired by a schedule I or II managed substance.
His remaining 5 felony prices had been dismissed: importing managed substances throughout state borders, first-degree managed substance sale, first-degree managed substance possession, failure to affix a tax stamp and first-degree sale of 17 grams or extra of cocaine or methamphetamine inside a 90-day interval.
Anderson has credit score for 14 days served.
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