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and fentanyl was recovered from the suspect. Later on in June 2023, the Mounds View VCET Investigator utilized the arrested individual, who was now a Confidential Informant, to conduct a controlled buy of a quantity of fentanyl. The Cl met with his fentanyl supplier who has since been identified as his / her supplier. The Mounds View VCET Investigator has now linked this supplier to a Detroit Based Drug Trafficking Organization responsible for distributing kilos of fentanyl in the Twin Cities metro area. A Search Warrant will be executed in the coming weeks after the investigation ends. In late June 2023, the Mounds View VCET Investigator assisted the Mounds View General Investigators with an armed robbery investigation. Mounds View Investigators worked alongside numerous other Law Enforcement agencies which led to the arrest of one of the robbery suspects. Mounds View Investigators learned of a second robbery suspect who was arrested within days. During a Miranda Warning Interview, the suspect admitted to their role in the armed robbery. This investigation is ongoing while Investigators attempt to determine if these two suspects were involved in any other unsolved robberies. Case Updates: During the first quarter of 2023, the Mounds View VCET Investigator assisted the Mounds View General Investigators with a Criminal Sexual Conduct Investigation after the suspect left the State of Minnesota. The Mounds View VCET Investigator utilized an investigative technique which led to a residence elsewhere in the United States. After working with local Law Enforcement in that area, the suspect was located leaving the residence and taken into custody for their Ramsey County Arrest Warrant. The suspect was later extradited back to Minnesota where their case is proceeding through the criminal justice system. In December 2022, the Mounds View VCET Investigator traveled to Missouri with other VCET Investigators stemming from an undercover methamphetamine operation months prior. Two suspects had been identified and indicted for their role in selling kilo quantities of methamphetamine in the Twin Cities metro area. VCET Investigators worked alongside Missouri Law Enforcement Officers to locate and arrest the suspects who had fled the state. The suspects were arrested and later extradited back to Minnesota. Both suspects have since pled guilty in Federal Court and will be sentenced in the coming weeks. Sentencing guidelines range for suspect #1 between 120 — 160 months while suspect #2 who has a lengthy criminal history ranges near 240 months.