Four Arrested as Part of Multiple Fentanyl Investigations

(KNSI) — Four people were arrested after guns and methamphetamine were allegedly seized from a St. Cloud home on November 10th.

The Central Minnesota Violent Offender Task Force executed the search warrant in the 800 block of 12th Avenue South. They say it turned up five guns “in close proximity of felony amounts of controlled substances.”

Investigators arrested 38-year-old Natasha Zins of St. Cloud and three others at the scene.

According to the criminal complaint, officers went into Zins’s bedroom and found a white crystal-like substance, which weighed in at 3.4 grams and tested positive for methamphetamine. Three guns, a magazine, two loose rounds of .45 auto ammunition and a clip of ammunition were also found in her bedroom, which she shares with her boyfriend. Zins has a previous felony conviction for drug possession in Wright County and is also not allowed to have guns.

Zins was charged with fifth-degree drug possession and a felon in possession of a firearm.

She was released on bail and is due back in court in January.

Three men aged 20 to 39 were also taken into custody. A search of jail records did not show the men had been charged. The criminal complaint also does not name Zins’s boyfriend.

The search warrant was carried out as part of multiple investigations dealing with pressed fentanyl pills in the St. Cloud area. Those pills are commonly referred to as M-Box 30 and have been linked to overdoses and overdose deaths in the St. Cloud area.

A 28-year-old man was arrested on November 10th after a search warrant allegedly turned up more than 300 pressed fentanyl pills in his home and car.

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