WINONA, Minn. – A police tactical squad arrested a Winona man and confiscated a massive stock of drugs some packaged for street sale, in a fifth-wheel camper parked at an East Side house. Arrested was Justin John Dionysius, 38. who has a lengthy a lengthy rap sheet, including at least two prison sentences for drugs and weapons. Confiscated inside the fifth-wheeler, where Dionysius lived, was $148,000 cash, police said. Also seized:
> 6.7 pounds of meth.
> 75.5 grams of cocaine.
> 23 grams amphetamine.
> 47 dosage units of Suboxone, which used to treat opioid addiction.
> 176 fentanyl pills.
> 9.5 grams of heroin.
> 2.5 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms.
> 70 prescription pills.
> 248 grans of a white powdery substance.
> 10 handguns with ammunition.
> 200-plus of ammunition rounds.
Dionysius was arrested after driving away from the East Second Street address where he lived — as police were assembling to search the place. Whether Dionysius was aware of the pending raid wasn’t clear. As he drove away, some officers pursued his 2017 Cadillac XT5. He stopped and offered no resistance. In the vehicle, officers reported finding:
> 3.5 grams of meth.
> $715 cash
Back on East Second Street, officers from the Southeast Violent Crime Task Force, the Winona County sheriff’s office and the Winona city police department entered Dionysius’ fifth-wheeler. Inside, they said, were five small safes in which they found the drugs and cash. Also in the safes were two ounces of collector gold coins and several Rolex watches.
Evidence room. Two folding tables stacked with drugs, weapons and miscellany seized in the raid.
Dionysius. A big guy, 6-foot-3 and 260 pounds.
Booking charges
> Five counts of illegal drug possession.
> Two counts of criminal weapons possession (metal knuckles, switchblades).
> Illegal firearms and ammunition.
Identified by police as a drug house. Officers had a search warrant for 661 East Second Street based on an ongoing investigation. Because the house had been severely damaged by fire several months earlier, Dionysius had moved out and into the fifth-wheel camper, which he parked outside. The house is in a quasi-industrial block with modest, mostly gentrifying homes. Parked outside in this 2024 photo are an oversize sChevrolet Tahoe sport utility vehicle and a Lincoln Town Car sedan.