Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - A pre-sentence investigation has been ordered for a Rochester man who was charged with trafficking thousands of fentanyl pills.

The criminal complaint filed against 28-year-old Hussein Abdirahman Sheikh-Adam last summer stemmed from a narcotics investigation conducted by the Rochester Police Department in 2023. The court document says investigators executed a search warrant at his home in the 200 block of 1st Avenue Northwest after conducting multiple controlled buys using a police informant in August and July 2023.

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According to the charges, investigators discovered a bag containing more than 3200 fentanyl pills hidden inside a torn mattress inside his home.

The court document states that, during an interview with investigators, Sheikh-Adam admitted to selling the pills and indicated that he would pick up around 1000 pills at a time from a contact in the Twin Cities.

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He was charged with one count each of first-degree drug sales and first-degree drug possession. During a pretrial hearing this afternoon in Olmsted County Court, Sheikh-Adam entered a guilty plea to the drug possession charge.

He is scheduled to be sentenced in April.

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