https://mn.gov/web/prod/static/lawlib/live/archive/ctappub/0109/c201399.htm
would you be surpised to find that CUP FOODS, the store where Floyd passed the fake bill HAD dealt in drugs and stolen merchandise IN THE PAST?
Filed September 11, 2001
CUP Foods (Chicago Unbeatable Prices)
Beginning in October 1998, police conducted surveillance of CUP Foods. Police observed loitering and hand-to-hand exchanges outside the store and in the store entryway. Using confidential informants, police made several “controlled buys” of either crack cocaine or apparent crack cocaine inside CUP Foods.
Based on the results of the controlled buys, police obtained a search warrant for CUP Foods and executed that warrant on November 18, 1998. Police recovered: stolen cell phones; a bullet-proof vest; live ammunition; a stolen bicycle; ephedrine, an ingredient in methamphetamine; glass tubing; baggies of what appeared to be crack cocaine (but later proved to lack cocaine base); postal scales; and three firearms. Police also observed bullet holes in a door. The state charged Nabil Abumayyaleh with unlawful possession of a firearm, but later dismissed that charge. Police did not link any of the stolen items to relator, and did not charge him with any crime.
Police continued to make controlled buys in CUP Foods during 1999. On one occasion, the participants completed a transaction in plain view of Nabil Abumayyaleh as he worked as a cashier. On November 9, 1999, a Minneapolis police officer recovered crack cocaine from a CUP Foods shelf during the course of answering a call reporting an armed man in the area.