Eagan Man Charged with Selling Cocaine, Codeine to Undercover Agents

An Eagan man was arrested this week on charges of selling cocaine and codeine to undercover informants twice in June.

Teddy Maurice Marshall, 49, who lives in the 4500 block of Villa Parkway, faces two felony charges: first-degree drug distribution, which carries a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison and a $1 million fine, and second-degree drug distribution, which carries a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.

Marshall, who was arrested Tuesday in Eagan, remains in the Dakota County Jail on a $250,000 bond. An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled for July 18 in Dakota County District Court in Hastings.

According to the first complaint against Marshall, who is also known as Teddy Lawson, Dakota Drug Task Force agents received information from a confidential informant in early June that Marshall was selling “quantities” of cocaine and prescription drugs.

The informant made arrangements on June 9 to buy one-eighth of an ounce of cocaine from Marshall in Eagan. When the informant – under surveillance by task force agents – arrived at Marshall’s townhouse, Marshall got into the informant’s car and told him that he had to meet with his source to pick up the cocaine, according to the complaint.

Agents followed the informant and Marshall, who met with an unidentified man at the Eagan transit station. All three then drove to another home; Marshall and the unidentified man went inside and returned to the informant’s car, where Marshall gave the cocaine to the informant, the complaint says.

On June 14, the same informant made arrangements to purchase an “eight ball,” or 3.5 grams, of cocaine from Marshall. The informant drove to Marshall’s home, and the two drove to a nearby strip mall, where the informant dropped off Marshall.

After that transaction, the informant delivered a plastic bag containing 2.48 grams of cocaine to drug task force agents, according to the complaint.

On Tuesday, task force agents arranged with a confidential informant and an undercover officer a purchase of 400-plus codeine pills from Marshall for $60, according to the second complaint.

The two drove to Marshall’s home, picked him up and drove to the parking lot of an Eagan hotel, where the transaction was completed, the complaint says. When the undercover officer gave a predetermined arrest signal, Marshall was arrested.

Marshall told authorities that the codeine pills were his and that he brought about 500 pills that he intended to “loan” to the men for $60, then use the money to buy more cocaine, the complaint says.

Marshall’s criminal record in Minnesota includes several convictions for drug distribution, domestic assault, making terroristic threats and criminal sexual conduct.