Man arrested in Red Lake with meth faces federal charge

RED LAKE—A methamphetamine possession charge was dismissed in county court against a Brooklyn Park, Minn., man caught with the drug in his possession in Red Lake in October, however, he will be charged. Michael Dukes was one of 41 people arrested in "Operation Exile," a multi-state drug bust, on May 28. On May 29, county level charges against Dukes were transferred to the federal level.

Dukes, 47, was charged with felony fifth-degree possession of methamphetamine in Beltrami County District Court after he and Christopher Peoples, 33, of St. Paul, also named in the federal case, were located at a residence on state Highway 1 in Red Lake during execution of a search warrant. Peoples was in possession of a digital scale, paraphernalia and a micro bag of a brown substance. He pleaded guilty to felony fifth-degree possession of heroin in December and was sentenced to 21 months in prison. Dukes was found with a bag of methamphetamine in his pants pocket.

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