FARGO — Attorneys clashed in federal court Wednesday, Aug. 13, over crucial evidence gathered during a seizure of more than 10,000 fentanyl-laced pills that eventually led to the criminal indictments of 10 people in a case involving a major fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking pipeline from the Twin Cities into Fargo and the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation.

During the hearing, Magistrate Judge Alice Senechal listened to witnesses and arguments over warrants authorized by Cass County judges in early November 2023 and a traffic stop and vehicle search conducted by a North Dakota state trooper later that month. The attorney for the lead defendant in the case, Maurice Haymon, 36, asked the court to exclude all evidence garnered from the warrants and the vehicle search, contending the

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