MINNEAPOLIS (AP) —Drug task force officers suspected a Minnesota couple of selling methamphetamine when they raided their house in an operation that left five officers and one resident wounded last week, according to a search warrant released Wednesday.
Gunfire broke out last Thursday when Sherburne County Drug Task Force officers attempted to execute the search warrant at the home of Karl Thomas Holmberg, 64.
A second warrant released showed that police also looked for flammable and electrical materials and fire damage after the raid after seeing black smoke inside the residence as Holmberg exited, look back, then went back inside.
He wrote that he got an informant or informants to buy meth from the couple twice earlier this year.
Interviewed by police at the hospital, he said he didn’t think the officers serving the search warrant “had a right to be there and told them to leave,” according to the complaint.
Persons:
Karl Thomas Holmberg, Holmberg, . Holmberg, ”, Ron Thomas, Austin Turner, Turner, “
Organizations:
Task Force, Princeton —, BCA
Locations:
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Sherburne, Glendorado Township, Princeton, Minneapolis, Benton, Benton County, Sherburne County