Big drug haul made during Cape Girardeau bust

The SEMO Drug Task Force executed a search warrant Friday at a Cape Girardeau apartment and found large amounts of seven controlled substances.

Brandon K. Donner, 27, of Cape Girardeau was arrested and has been charged with five counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $50,000 cash or surety.

Officers forced entry into the apartment at 701 Broadway about 1 p.m. Friday and found Donner in the apartment alone, according to a probable-cause statement filed by SEMO Drug Task Force officer Mike Alford. Officers found a large plastic bag of marijuana in the closet of the bedroom, Alford wrote. Alford asked Donner whether he would tell them about all the illegal items in the residence.

“You will find what you find,” Donner told Alford, according to the report.

Officers broke open a safe after Donner refused to provide the combination, according to the statement.

Brandon Donner

In the subsequent search, these items were found, according to the statement:

• 1,051 pills of Xanax,
• 1/4 pound of marijuana
• a plastic bag with over 100 empty gel capsules
• $2,445 in cash, including a $20 bill that came from the Drug Task Force
• 81 hits of LSD
• 207 oxycodone pills
• a plastic bag of white powder that field tested positive as MDMA, also known as ecstasy
• a plastic bag with about 10 grams of MDMA
• 14 capsules of MDMA
• 29 capsules of a powder which field tested positive for 2C-B (a drug similar to ecstasy)
• a plastic bag of 2C-B
• Two plastic bags with a rock-like substance that field-tested positive for methamphetamine.

Alford noted Donner had several digital scales.

There were several other pills and powders unidentified in the report. Alford wrote those substances will be analyzed in the Missouri State Highway Patrol crime laboratory.

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Pertinent address: 701 Broadway, Cape Girardeau, Mo.