Drug-laced legal papers prompt jailhouse investigation

Attorney’s home searched in jailhouse investigation

The Brief

  • A search warrant obtained by FOX 9 details an investigation into legal paperwork found in Hennepin County Jail cells laced with cocaine and fentanyl.
  • Inmates have been able to ingest drugs by tearing smaller pieces of laced paper and putting it under their tongue to get high.
  • The warrant notes that investigators searched the home of a criminal defense attorney but are not sure whether she might be a middle person, an organizer, or an unknowing participant in the alleged scheme.

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) Search warrants reveal investigators recently searched the home of Sarah Gad, a criminal defense attorney, after her clients obtained legal paperwork in jail laced with cocaine and fentanyl. Gad is not charged with a crime and called the suspicion “baseless.”

Investigation involves criminal defense attorney

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According to investigators in the warrant, an 8×11 piece of paper saturated with drugs can be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

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