Court documents reveal 900 pounds of meth found in a storage unit in Burnsville, Minnesota, prompted a highly scrutinized federal raid on Lake Street in Minneapolis earlier this month.
A federal criminal complaint filed Monday said the June 3 raid at Cuatro Milpas was connected to one of eight search warrants executed across the state. Those warrants followed the search of a Burnsville storage unit, which the complaint said yielded 900 pounds of crystal meth “concealed in multiple tubes separately held in large spools of metal.” The street value of the meth is at least $22 million, authorities said. Court documents do not say when that meth was recovered.
The federal warrants directed law enforcement to search for and seize evidence related to “controlled substances, money laundering, bank fraud, human trafficking, and firearms.” Authorities say they collected “relevant evidence” at each location they visited…