Dina Ali Mawri, 26, Minot, has been indicted by a jury in U.S. District Court on a charge of intent to deliver 77.6 grams of fentanyl on July 21 in Minot.

She had originally been charged with a Class A felony in district court in Minot, but the charge was dismissed when it was transferred to federal court.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court in the dismissed district court case, the Ward County Narcotics Task Force executed a federal narcotics search warrant at Mawri’s residence. They found 776 individual green pills with the imprint M30 concealed in deodorant sticks in Mawri’s bedroom. Though the imprint identifies the pills as 30 mg oxycodone pills, the green color indicates they are counterfeit, according to the affidavit.

According to an affidavit by Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Jeffrey Buckles that was filed with the federal case, Mawri had rented Apt. 7207 at 1410 30th Avenue NW but is originally from Dearborn, Mich., and has ties to several people from Michigan who have been trafficking pills in the area. Mawri had allegedly been on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation this summer to collect money from drug users and was armed with a firearm. Mawri also has allegedly stayed with people in the Belcourt area while she traffics pills on the reservation.

The search of Mawri’s apartment also turned up several cell phones and a Taurus 9mm pistol containing rounds of ammunition in the magazine in addition to the more than 700 fentanyl pressed pills in her bedroom closet. According to the affidavit in the federal case, a drug dealer can sell a pill containing fentanyl for up to $10 per pill in Michigan but up to $80 per pill in North Dakota, depending on where in the state it is sold.

Fentanyl has been implicated in numerous drug overdoses and overdose deaths in Minot and the surrounding area over the last couple of years, according to Minot police. A number of dealers from Michigan have been initially charged in state court and then the cases are transferred to federal court. In several cases, drug dealers from Michigan have worked with locals to deliver the drugs to people in the Minot area and on area Indian reservations throughout the state.

Mawri is currently in custody at the Ward County Jail.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Alice Senechal has ordered her held pending trial until a bed in a substance abuse treatment facility opens up. Mawri acknowledges that she needs treatment for substance abuse, according to court documents. According to court documents, she has a limited criminal history.