Warranted Albuquerque man arrested by RRPD for drug charges

Dan Szadkowski, about 33, of Albuquerque, was arrested Jan. 18 for a felony warrant and summoned for possession of drug paraphernalia and two counts of possession of a controlled substance at adult probation and parole in Rio Rancho.

Szadkowski’s warrant was for charges filed in 2019 that had to do with trafficking drugs, child abuse and resisting arrest.

He was reported to be at the probation and parole office that day. Officers recognized his girlfriend leaving the probation office before getting into a car near CVS that they believed Szadkowski to be driving.

Officers began surveillance of the car by vehicle, following it to an IHOP on Mercantile Avenue.

Officers believed he was using narcotics as they surveiled him at the restaurant, so as he was leaving they detained him for his felony warrant.

Officers then found drug paraphernalia, crystal meth and fentanyl in the car.

Szadkowski, if convicted, will face more than nine years for the previous trafficking charge and an additional three years for the new charges.