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Donnell Fulmore, Minot, charged with intent to deliver ecstasy

Donnell Lamarhio Pevia Fulmore, 26, Minot, is accused of intent to deliver ecstasy while in the possession of a firearm early Saturday morning.

He is charged in district court in Minot with Class A felony intent to deliver MDMA and Class A misdemeanor carrying a concealed firearm. He made an initial appearance on the charges on Monday.

According to the probable cause affidavit filed with the court, officers spotted a silver Camaro with no front license plate and an out-of-state rear plate stop several times for short periods around a building at 105 West Central Avenue. The vehicle was observed stopping in front of the building, then driving around another car that was stopped in the road and leaving again after picking someone up. An officer spotted the car drive south on Broadway and stopped it because it had no license plate light.

One officer approached the vehicle on the passenger side and smelled marijuana coming from the vehicle. The occupants of the vehicle had ID from North Carolina and Georgia. The officer noted in the affidavit that he is aware that there is now more narcotics trafficking in the Minot area coming out of North Carolina and the activity outside the downtown building was consistent with drug dealing. The driver, Fulmore, denied that anyone in the car had been smoking marijuana and said the officers were smelling cigars. The officer asked the other people in the vehicle to get out and both of them also claimed they had not been smoking marijuana. None had medical marijuana cards.

An officer found a loaded magazine in the vehicle. No one in the car had told the police they had a firearm and none had a concealed carry permit. A search of the vehicle turned up a loaded .380 pistol under the passenger seat. About 20 ecstasy pills. wrapped in a plastic bindle, were located on the driver’s side floorboard.

Fulmore claimed possession of the gun and the pills, which he said he had purchased for $15 because he had a toothache. He was charged because of the large number of pills present. The officer wrote in the affidavit that the street value per pill would be between $10 to $20 each and it would be nearly impossible to purchase that number of pills for just $15. It was charged as an A felony because he was carrying a gun.

The female passenger in the car denied that she had purchased ecstasy from Fulmore, but seemed to the officer like she had recently used ecstasy. She was let go without being charged.

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