Lanea Renae Maxwell, 22, Minot, is charged in district court in Minot with intent to deliver 115 grams of fentanyl, or 1,000 pills on Friday.

She is charged with Class A felony intent to deliver fentanyl, Class B felony maintaining a residence where drugs are trafficked, and Class C felony possession of drug paraphernalia.

According to a probable cause affidavit and citations filed with the court, a package containing the fentanyl had been addressed to Maxwell at 1015 27th Street SE, Lot 59. The Ward County Narcotics Task Force obtained a search warrant for the package, which it searched. The Task Force then substituted a package that contained a lesser amount of 10 fentanyl pills which was delivered to Maxwell and which she accepted. Her residence was searched and the search turned up a marijuana grinder and baggie with marijuana residue, a large number of small plastic baggies that are typical of those used to package drugs for sale, an electronic scale disguised as a CD case, a can containing empty plastic baggies with powder residue, a baggie containing about 270 suspected fentanyl pills, weighing 30 grams, $2,790 in currency, a digital device for hardware storage of cryptocurrency, two cell phones, packaging and shipping labels belonging to other people known to traffic illegal drugs, and the box that had been delivered to Maxwell. The total amount of fentanyl in her possession weighed about 140 grams.

Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is far more powerful than heroin and has been implicated by Minot police in a number of local drug overdoses and overdose deaths.