{"id":33509,"date":"2026-06-20T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/?p=33509"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:03:28","slug":"crookston-ricardo-mello-booked-in-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/crookston-ricardo-mello-booked-in-drug-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Crookston: Ricardo Mello Booked In Drug Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Crookston: Ricardo Mello Booked In Drug Case<\/h2>\n<article><strong>Crookston<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trfnews.i234.me<\/a>) \u2014 Ricardo Mello was recently booked into the Polk County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Mello, whose date of birth is listed as January 14, 1988, was booked on June 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The listed charge is first-degree drug sale. The booking note lists the offense as a felony-level charge.<\/p>\n<p>The listing says the case involves 10 grams or more of cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>It also says the alleged sale happened within 90 days.<\/p>\n<h2>Booking Details<\/h2>\n<p>The charge is listed under Minnesota Statute 152.021.1(1).<\/p>\n<p>That law covers some first-degree controlled substance sale cases in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Readers can review the statute through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/statutes\/cite\/152.021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No court result was listed in the booking information provided.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"text-align: center; margin: 24px auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MELLO-RICARDO.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Ricardo Mello\" \/><figcaption>Ricardo Mello booking photo.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Public Records And Case Status<\/h2>\n<p>A jail booking is not a conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Mello is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.<\/p>\n<p>Custody status, bond details, and court dates may change after booking.<\/p>\n<p>Readers can check current custody information through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitycorrections-tccc.org\/?SEC=7AA2A95C-63E9-415B-9B67-C9E68D3D1F20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tri-County Community Corrections inmate roster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Public court records may also be available through <a href=\"https:\/\/publicaccess.courts.state.mn.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota Court Records Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officials may update the case as it moves through the court system.<\/p>\n<p>This story is based on the booking information available at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Chris Harper reporting for <a href=\"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TRF News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Mello was booked June 16 at Polk County Jail on a felony first-degree drug sale charge, according to a recent jail listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[16518],"tags":[17733,871,892,1191,19366,11819,15389],"class_list":["post-33509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recently-booked","tag-booked","tag-case","tag-crookston","tag-drug","tag-mello","tag-recently","tag-ricardo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33511,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33509\/revisions\/33511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trfnews.i234.me\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}