Duluth drug bust nets meth, cocaine, gun and nearly $45,000
Kwame Mitchell was jailed after investigators seized meth, cocaine, fentanyl, a loaded pistol and $44,883 from two Duluth drug-sale locations.
A Duluth man accused of selling drugs across the Twin Ports was jailed after a multiagency task force found nearly 2 kilograms of methamphetamine, more than a kilogram of cocaine, fentanyl, a loaded pistol and $44,883 in cash tied to his operation.
Police identified the suspect as 31-year-old Kwame Mitchell. Duluth police said investigators with the Lake Superior Violent Offender Task Force had been investigating Mitchell for drug sales within the Twin Ports and identified two locations he used to sell drugs from. Search warrants were then executed at both locations, on Mitchell and on his vehicle.
The search turned up 1,996.37 grams of methamphetamine, 1.05 kilograms of cocaine, 3 grams of fentanyl, $44,883 in U.S. currency, a loaded pistol and other evidence of drug sales. Mitchell was booked into the St. Louis County Jail on pending charges of first-degree sale of methamphetamine, first-degree sale of cocaine and felon in possession of a firearm.
The arrest is the latest example of how local and regional agencies are coordinating around repeat offenders and narcotics trafficking in Duluth and the greater Twin Ports. The Lake Superior Violent Offender Task Force serves Northeast Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin, bringing together the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, the Duluth, Hibbing, Virginia and Superior police departments, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Minnesota National Guard Counter Drug Task Force and Homeland Security Investigations.
The task force says its work centers on violent crime investigations, illegal firearm seizures, fugitive apprehension and controlled-substance enforcement. Its operations are financed primarily through a state violent crime enforcement grant, a Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension anti-heroin grant and a federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area grant.
Duluth police issued the release June 4, and the case follows other recent task force activity in the area, including a January operation aimed at members and associates of the Black P Stone street gang in the Duluth-Superior area. Taken together, the operations show a sustained push by local, state and federal partners to disrupt drug networks before they can keep feeding violence and addiction in nearby neighborhoods.
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