Ariel Marie Litwin, 28, Dunseith, is accused of picking up a Michigan man, Todd Denard Wilkes Jr., 23, from the Minot Amtrak station on Sunday and planning to deal heroin in Minot.

Litwin is charged in district court in Minot with Class B felony possession with intent to deliver heroin, Class B felony criminal conspiracy to deliver heroin within 1,000 feet of a school, Class C felony posession of methamphetamine, and Class C felony fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle. Her co-defendant, Wilkes Jr., of Eastpointe, Mich., is charged in district court in Minot with Class B felony possession with intent to deliver heroin and Class B felony conspiracy with intent to deliver heroin within 1,000 feet of a school.

According to the probable cause affidavit filed with the court, police tried to stop Litwin for driving with expired registration on Sunday afternoon and Litwin fled from the officer. Her front seat passenger, Wilkes, had been seen getting off the train and into Litwin’s vehicle prior to the stop. Litwin’s vehicle was eventually located on the sidewalk of a trailer house listed for sale in southwest Minot and Litwin and Wilkes were stopped as they were walking away from the vehicle. Litwin had in her purse a syringe loaded with a liquid she identiifed as methamphetamine. At the jail, Litwin was searched and the search turned up a vacuum sealed bag that contained two individual bags, one with light blue tinted powder and one with light tan powder, each appearing to contain approximately one ounce of heroin. Litwin told the officers that Wilkes gave her the heroin to hide on her person after he got off the train.