Mark Anthony Eggerson

Mark Anthony Eggerson , 23, of Utica, Minn., was booked into Winona County Jail on Friday after police allege he sold cocaine in a controlled buy. Prior to that, he’d been there for a litany of charges, including drunken driving and selling cocaine .<br />Eggerson was charged Monday with four felonies that allege he sold cocaine to a police informant on four occasions in the past three months. The most serious of those charges carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. He was also charged with a lesser felony possession charge and obstructing the legal process by resisting an officer.<br />According to police and court documents, police arrested Eggerson on Friday afternoon immediately following a controlled buy in the parking lot of a restaurant on Center Street. At about 1:15 p.m., a Winona narcotics investigator stood inside the entrance of the restaurant overlooking the parking lot, where a police informant waited for Eggerson to sell her cocaine.Eggerson also sold 0.27 grams of crack cocaine to a police informant on Oct. 30. The transaction took place in a vacant apartment in the 600 block of East Fifth Street while a police officer hid in one of the apartment’s bedrooms. The apartment is located near the Hope Lutheran High School, which aggravates the charge.<br />On Nov. 19, an informant purchased 1.04 grams of crack-cocaine from Eggerson near another restaurant on Center Street. On Dec. 27, an informant bought 0.69 grams of cocaine in Eggerson’s driveway in Utica, court records allege<br />According to the criminal complaint, Eggerson was seen getting into the informant’s car, sold her 0.85 grams of cocaine for $100 and returned to the restaurant about two minutes later. When he opened the door, the investigator was waiting:

Mark Anthony Eggerson

Mark Anthony Eggerson , 23, of Utica, Minn., was booked into Winona County Jail on Friday after police allege he sold cocaine in a controlle...

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