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Andrae Loyd III, 26, New Town, is charged in district court in Stanley with Class B felony intent to deliver a Schedule II controlled substance inNew Town on Thursday.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed with the court, Loyd allegedly sold pills to a confidential informant working for law enforcement in a vehicle outside a residence. Loyd’s residence at 612 Rainbow Drive was searched after the Drug Enforcement Division obtained a search warrant and evidence located included $595 in U.S. currency in one bedroom, a blue pill inside a boot in the bedroom. Two ledgers were found incide the same bedroom. Loyd had $3,956 in U.S. currency in his pants pocket and 18 blue pills. Agents from the Drug Enforcement Division had already bagged the evidence. They turned over custody to a deputy from the Mountrail County Sheriff’s Department, who took Loyd to the jail in Stanley. Non-tribal members charged with crimes committed on the Fort Berthold Reservation are generally tried in state court. A citation lists Loyd’s address as 612 Rainbow Drive in New Town and an online court record lists a Flint, Mich., address for Loyd.