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On April 2^nd, 2018, Michael Wayne Olson, 53, of Duluth, was sentenced in St. Louis County District Court to 110 months incarceration after pleading guilty to 1^st Degree Sale of a Controlled Substance.  Olson had been charged in December of 2017 after an investigation by the Lake Superior Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, Duluth Police Department and St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office into Olson being involved in the sale of controlled substances in Duluth.  During the investigation, police executed search warrants at a residence in the 600 block of North 22^nd Avenue West and a motor  vehicle used by Olson.  Investigators recovered approximately 42 grams of methamphetamine, including methamphetamine that was buried on the property of the residence, drug packaging and a drug sales ledger.

Olson is a recidivist drug dealer in the Duluth area and has previous controlled substance convictions in Minnesota for 1^st Degree Sale of a Controlled Substance (2010), 3^rd Degree Possession of a Controlled Substance and Fleeing Police in a Motor Vehicle (2005), 4^th Degree Possession of a Controlled Substance (2005), 2^nd Degree Controlled Substance Crime (2002), 5^th Degree Sale of Marijuana (1996), 3^rd Degree Sale of LSD, 3^rd Degree Sale of Cocaine and 5^th Degree Sale of Marijuana (1991).  Olson had been released from incarceration for his 2010 drug sales conviction in February of 2017 prior to his most recent arrest by the Task Force.