Crime & Safety

Indoor Tanning Turns into Ecstasy Bust for Rosemount Police

Andrea Marie Fox faces a felony drug possession charge.

A Rosemount woman has been charged with felony drug possession after authorities say she accidentally left a bag of Ecstasy pills in a Rosemount tanning salon in May.

Andrea Marie Fox, 22, faces a charge of fifth-degree drug possession, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint, Rosemount police were called to the tanning salon on May 24 after an employee reported that she had found a small bag of pills while cleaning a tanning room.

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The employee said the room had previously been used by Fox. When she went into the room to clean it for the next customer, the employee told police, she stepped on a plastic bag containing pills.

Fox returned to the salon shortly afterward – after police had arrived – and said she had left something in the room and needed to go back and get it, according to the complaint.

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When an officer asked Fox about the pills, she admitted they were hers and that she’d come back to look for them, the complaint says.

An analysis by the St. Paul police crime lab determined that the pills were 79 grams of Ecstasy.

Fox is scheduled to make a first appearance on the charge Sept. 12 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.


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