Search Warrants Leads to Arrests

A 50-year-old woman and a 46-year-old man from Clara City are in custody in the Kandiyohi County Jail facing 1st Degree Controlled Substance charges and firearms related charges stemming from search warrants executed on their vehicle and residence by the CCC-VI Drug and Gang Task Force during the afternoon and evening of April 22nd.

During the search warrant execution on the vehicle, the parties were driving in Kandiyohi County and agents located over a quarter pound of methamphetamine. An additional search warrant was executed on their residence which is in the 400 Block of 3rd Ave NE in Clara City where agents located additional methamphetamine as well as a firearm and ammunition inside that residence. An additional occupant of the residence, a 21-year-old Willmar woman, was also arrested on controlled substance charges and is being held in the Yellow Medicine County jail.

The CEE-VI Task Force was assisted on this case by the Kandiyohi County sheriff’s Office, the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office and the WEST Central SWAT Team.