Northfield Man Charged with Heroin Possession

A Northfield man has been charged with heroin possession in Minneapolis.

Zachary Tayler Cramer, 20, is charged with fifth-degree drug possession, a felony with a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint filed with Hennepin County District Court, signed by Minneapolis Police Officer David Menter, police were working a plainclothes detail at a restaurant in the 1900 block of Minnehaha Avenue South on April 25 when they saw a car pull into the parking lot.

Cramer was sitting in the car’s front passenger seat, according to the complaint. Police watched him get out and get into another car parked a short distance away.

While Cramer was sitting in the other car, officers saw him “manipulating something in his lap” and periodically “looking up furtively,” charges say.

Officers approached the car and saw Cramer holding a small bag of what they suspected were drugs, the complaint says. One of the officers identified himself and told Cramer to hand him the bag; when Cramer didn’t comply, police grabbed him and took the bag, according to Menter’s account.

Cramer was arrested. The drugs in the bag were found to be .2 grams of heroin, the complaint says.

Cramer is free on a $3,000 bond.

An omnibus hearing in his case is scheduled May 30 in Hennepin County District Court.

In 2010, Cramer was convicted of possessing a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, both petty misdemeanors, according to Minnesota Court records.

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