Three heroin deaths, one dealer: 'She sold it to them knowing it was bad'

Colleen Ronnei stealthily followed her son, keeping her distance so he wouldn’t spot her. Then she watched as he bought heroin in an Edina mall parking lot last summer.

Ronnei was desperate to save Luke; he was desperate to be “clean” again. But the pull of heroin was overwhelming at times, testing his will to remain clean.

“I needed to get this drug dealer off the street,” Ronnei recalled. She wrote down the dealer’s license plate and went to the police. There was little they could do at that point, they said.

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