ROCHESTER, Minn. — Drug trafficking charges were leveled against a Rochester man in whose car police found 844 M30 pills that were laced with fentanyl. Charged was Jacob Donavan Danielson, 28. While Danielson was being booked, a jailer found a small blue container with a controlled substance in his BVDs. The arrest was over Labor Day weekend, but the most serious charges were delayed until confiscated items were lab-tested. The charges: Felony first-degree, second-degree and third-degree drug sales and felony first-degree and second-degree drug possession. Court records show a previous possession conviction in Rochester.
The take-down
Police responding to a report of a man slumped over in a vehicle outside a a hotel found Danielson waking up. This is their report: When an officer knocked on the widow, Danielson got out, looked at him and turned and scooted off. Another officer intercepted him. This about 11:30 p.m. on September 5. When a K-9 unit. arrived, the canine officer Mack confirmed drugs were in the vehicle. Officers already had seen a “tooter,” a straw used to inhale drugs, in the front seat. They also had seen two see-through zip-lock bags with white powdery substance showing through. Confiscated besides the 844 M30 pills s were an Adderall stimulant pill and a bottle of the addictive relaxant Hydroxyzine.