Man Found Sleeping Near Minnetonka School Arrested on Drug Charges

A St. Paul man is facing felony drug charges after police say they found him sleeping in the woods near a Minnetonka middle school last week with a variety of illegal drugs on him.

Nicholas Bernard Janssen, 31, is charged with two counts of fifth-degree drug possession, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Janssen remains in the Hennepin County Jail on a $3,000 bond. He is also being held on a 2011 warrant charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

According to the criminal complaint, Minnetonka Police were notified just before 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 14 of a suspicious person sleeping in the woods near .

When police arrived, they found Janssen asleep. They woke him up, checked his identification and found an active warrant for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Officers searched Janssen and found several prescription bottles with another person’s name on them. The bottles contained 10 Fentanyl patches, 90 Oxycodone tablets, 10 Viagra tablets and a Warfarin tablet.

Police contacted the daughter of the patient for whom the drugs were prescribed. She told them that she had filled her father’s prescriptions the day before and left them in her car. She said someone had stolen them on the evening of March 13 or in the early morning hours of March 14.

An omnibus hearing in Janssen’s case is scheduled for April 5 in Hennepin County District Court.