PINE ISLAND, Minn. – While a jailer was booking Abdimajid Mohamed for erratic driving and being high, his pockets turned up with a baggy of counterfeit painkillers. The jailer counted 822 pills, all laced with fentanyl. Suddenly the booking listed new charges. Mohamed, 23, of Burnsville, had been stopped by a state trooper about 10:40 p.m. on Highway 52 near Pine Island, 20 miles north of Rochester. The trooper said Mohamed appeared to be lethargic and admitted to pill-popping a couple hours earlier. Also there was an outstanding arrest warrant. So the trooper took a blood sample and took Mohamed in.
Mohamed. Charges: First-degree and second-degree drug sales, second-degree drug possession, impaired driving.