ROCHESTER, Minn. – A Rochester man in whose home police found 36,000 counterfeit Oxycodone pills was arraigned and bail set at $1 million. The arrest of John Michael Ask, 46, had occurred Tuesday. It followed the interception of a massive shipment of drugs from Arizona on July 15 in a traffic stop at the Interstate 90 and Interstate 35 interchange at Albert Lea. With clues from the shipment, officers raided various addresses in Rochester three days later. These included Ask’s house in the 2800 block of Riverwood Lane. Besides the 36,00 M30 Oxycodone, which were laced with fentanyl, police confiscated cocaine and marijuana, a firearm, 80 rounds of ammunition and a fake ID card.
Ask. His arrest, police say, culminated months of investigation.