Two people were arrested on charges of selling drugs and weapons Thursday following a law enforcement raid on a southwest Minot residence.

Steven Earl Smiley, 27, and Krisan Jewel Smiley, 22, were scheduled to make initial appearances in district court in Minot on Friday.

Steven Smiley is charged with Class B felony possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, a Class B felony, possession and sale of machine guns, automatic weapons, silencers or bombs, a Class C felony, possession of heroin, a Class C felony, and two counts of Class A misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia other than marijuana.

Krisan Smiley is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, a Class B felony, possession and sale of automatic weapons, silencers or bombs, a Class C felony, possession of heroin, a Class A misdemeanor and two counts of Class A misdemenaor possession of drug paraphernalia other than marijuana.

According to the probable cause affidavit filed in the case, the Ward County Narcotics Task Force assisted ATF Agents in executing a search warrant at the address on 2815 1st Avenue SW on Thursday morning. They had reports that Steven Smiley, who has a felony theft conviction, and Krisan Smiley had been advertising and selling firearms. Smiley is not allowed to possess firearms. When they executed the search warrant, they saw a wooden box on the floor containing baggies of marijuana packaged to sell. The officers then went and got another search warrant for the residence for a more extensive search.

The search turned up marijuana packaged for sale, paraphernalia including a digital scale, glass smoking devices and a grinder, and another digital scale with black tar heroin residue. Inside a gun safe they found more than $14,000 in U.S. currency.

The ATF also seized 20 firearms from the residence, firearm parts and a handmade silencer with no serial number, according to the affidavit.

– Andrea Johnson