Forty-one defendants charged with conspiracy to traffic drugs

Defendants trafficked heroin and other drugs to the Red Lake and White Earth Indian Reservations from Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis

United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the indictment of forty-one members of a multi-state heroin trafficking conspiracy.

The 41 defendants named in the indictment were charged with Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin, Methamphetamine, Oxycodone, Hydromorphone, Hydrocodone, and Methadone. Several defendants were charged with additional crimes related to the drug trafficking scheme, including firearms offenses. The defendants were making initial appearances before Magistrate Judge Tony Leung in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.

“The indictment of the Beasley drug trafficking organization is emblematic of our commitment to combatting heroin trafficking in Minnesota,” said U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger. “These defendants, led by Omar Beasley, represented the most significant source of heroin in Indian Country. Through close collaboration with our federal, local, and Tribal law enforcement partners, we have shut down this major pipeline that was spreading heroin across the Red Lake and White Earth Indian Reservations and the surrounding communities.”

“The Omar Beasley heroin and prescription drug trafficking organization cared nothing about the collateral damage it inflicted upon neighborhoods, families, and especially young children on tribal lands in Minnesota and elsewhere in the Midwest,” stated DEA Minneapolis-St Paul Assistant Special Agent in Charge Dan Moren. “Beasley and the 40 other members of his organization believed that federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies throughout the region were not speaking with one another and connecting the dots…they were wrong.”

Charged were: 1.Omar Sharif Beasley, 2. William David Alonzo, 3.Travis James Baker, 4. Rose Lynn Barrett, 5.Sonnie Marie Barrett, 6. Calvin (NMN) Beasley, 7. Timothy Joseph Beaulieu, Jr., 8. Willie (NMN) Bellamy, Jr.,9. Lamarcus Antonio Brock, 10.Michael Travell Collins, 11.Michael Joseph Dominguez, 12.Stacey Rae Duchaine, 13.Ernestine (NMN) Dukes, 14.Michael Lenior Dukes, 15.Brenda Ann Fagan, 16.William James Fasthorse, 17.April Marie Graves, 18.Stephen Martin Hollis, 19.Yalonzo Ramon Hull, 20.Durial John Jackson, 21.Justin Lee Johnson, 22.Velvet Ilene Johnson, 23.Gene Michael Keezer, 24.Nakoya Harris Keezer, 25.Rodney Lee Keezer, 26.Jarvis Allen King, 27.Jodi Lynn Kjolberg, 28.Yvette (NMN) Kouayara, 29.Jennifer Lynn Oppegard, 30.Jessica Rae Oppegard, 31.Lee Allen Oppegard, 32.Burney Abdulah Peoples, 33.Christopher Erving Peoples, 34.Ravonna Raye Peoples, 35.Lucas John Peterson, 36.Doeron Earl Rayford, 37. Sherrlene Rose Roberts, 38.Maisie Ann Sargent, 39.Dale Andrew Sigana, 40.Sarah Elizabeth Thompson and 41.Robyn Joanne Wipf.