Application Page 1-4 STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF HENNEPIN DISTRICT COURT APPLICATION FOR SEARCH WARRANT 1, Nicholas Pielert, a licensed peace officer in the State of Minnesota, make an application to this Court for a warrant to search the device(s) described below, for the property and thing(s) described below. | know the content of this application and affirm that the statements contained in this application are true based on my own knowledge, or are believed to be true. | believe that the following described property and thing(s), namely: IP logs, dates and times of login, email addresses, zip code, name, Facebook web page content, all stored message, image and video data related to the Facebook accounts: James Allen Cross https://m.facebook.com/nah.founder James Cross hitps://www.facebook.com/james.cross.92754397 is or are stored within the device(s) described as: Facebook, inc. 1601 Willow Road Mento Park, CA 94025 records@facebook.com located in city or township of Minneapolis, County of Hennepin, State of Minnesota. | apply for a search warrant on the following grounds: * The property or things above-described constitutes evidence which tends to show a crime has been committed, or tends to show that a particular person has committed a crime.Application Page 2-4 The facts establishing the grounds for issuance of a search warrant are as follows: Your affiant, Officer Pielert, is a licensed Minnesota Police Officer of 12 years, currently employed by the City of Minneapolis. | am currently assigned to the Minneapolis Police Departments 3rd Precinct Community Response Team (CRT) and focus on investigations of narcotics trafficking and weapons. During the course of criminal investigations, your affiant has utilized cooperating informants, cooperating defendants, video and audio surve3illance. { have participated in numerous controlled buys of narcotics from targets of law enforcement investigations. Acting in that capacity | give you the following: During the month of September 2018, 3rd Precinct Community Response Team (CRT) Officers received information from community members visiting and living in the Hiawatha Ave tent camp AKA "tent city” that a community organizer with the group N.A.H. was involved in selling heroin in the tent camp. This person had been identified by the concerned Citizen as James Cross. Cross is known to 3rd Precinct CRT Officers because of his involvement with the United Tribes of Little Earth housing development as well as his involvement with the Hiawatha Ave tent camp. There are two additional police informants that have provided independent information also stating that Cross is involved in the sales of heroin in the tent camp, While conducting surveillance 3rd Precinct CRT Officers have observed Cross regularly at the tent camp. Cross is often with 6-12 other people and enters a variety of tents for brief stops (2-5 minutes). One of the tents Cross has been observed regularly entering is occupied by a known heroin dealer. As a part of the investigation, your affiant checked Cross' publically viewable Facebook pages for illegal activity. Both of these Facebook pages show profile photographs of Cross as wellApplication Page 3- 4 a5 uploaded videos and photos of Cross. On September 30, 2018 a video was posted to Cross’ Facebook page showing an organized ‘group Cross appears to be leading to evict several tent occupants from the Hiawatha tent camp. Cross states in the video that he is evicting the occupants for selling heroin. The group, including Cross, then enter several occupied tents, deconstruct them while the residents are inside and force the residents from their dwelling. Cross and others are then seen removing the tents and throwing all of the occupants items, including the tents onto the boulevard. The sites were cleared on video and Cross is heard on video giving the occupants items to other people in the area. Your affiant knows from his training and experience as a Police Officer, that Facebook is often used as a communication tool for criminal activity. Facebook messaging, text and video services can contain evidence of criminal activity. The video described in this warrant is evidence of a crime and currently held in the custody of Facebook Inc. Based on the above information, your affiant respectfully requests permission of the court to electronically search the listed Facebook profiles belonging ta Cross. Your affiant requests the following order from the court. NON-DISCLOSURE ORDER It is further ordered that internet content provider, Facebook, not notify any person {including the subscriber or customer to which the materials relate) of the existence of this order for 90 days in that such a disclosure could give the subscriber an opportunity to destroy evidence, notify confederates, and/or flee or continue their flight from prosecution.