LEWISTON, Minn. – A third and fourth person were booked at the Winona County jail after a drug raid at a house at the Arches that had been under surveillance for drug activity. Arrested, in addition to two reported previously:
> Aaron Patrick Devorak, 42, of Winona.
> Justin Thomas Mercer, 34, of Lewiston.
The earlier reported arrests: Robert Dwayne Coey, 37, who owns the house, and Justine Nicole Gahnz, 35. Seized were drug paraphernalia with meth residue and 41 grams of a brownish substance that local testing equipment could not identify, police said. The substance has been sent to a state lab for analysis. There was no resistance to the arrests, police said. Involved were seven officers – two sheriff’s deputies and five members of the Southeast Minnesota Violent Crimes Task Force, including two Winona County investigators.
Devorak.
Mercer.
Drug house. Previous incidents included a drug overdose.