Charges: 90 guns, drugs seized from Twin Cities licensed gun dealer who threatened to harm police

Government agents seized illicit drugs and several dozen guns from the Twin Cities-area home of a man with a long-running penchant for threatening law enforcement, according to a criminal complaint and related court filings.

Kollin J Konitzer, 34, of South St. Paul was charged in Dakota County District Court last week with four counts of felony drug possession while also possessing guns in connection with the Aug. 20 raid on his home in the 300 block of 7th Avenue S.

Konitzer remains jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail ahead of a Sept. 11 hearing. Court records do not list an attorney for him.

Konitzer runs Alphabet Soup Arms LLC, a company based in his home that is licensed to sell guns and ammunition, according to the Federal Firearms Licensee database. His professional online biography lists him as the company’s founder and owner.

According to the charges and other court documents:

County drug task force agents searched Konitzer’s home one day after his contentious arrest on allegations that he went into South St. Paul police headquarters while armed with a loaded handgun but lacking a state-issued permit to carry a firearm in public.

The search turned up about 90 guns of various types. One gun was a scoped rifle atop a tripod overlooking the front door. Ammunition also was found.

On the day of his arrest, Konitzer arrived at police headquarters and was met by two commanders because of unspecified “prior interactions” with clerical staff.

Konitzer was at the front window to retrieve data he requested several years ago. He received the data and said he wanted to file complaints about his request and a 911 dispatcher.

A commander assisting Konitzer saw him “grab near the front of his right hip ... and observed the outline of a handgun through [his] shirt ... and observed [Konitzer] grab the grip of the firearm,” the charges read.

Once the commander determined that Konitzer did not have a permit to carry a gun, a police officer seized the weapon, which had one round in the chamber and 12 more in the magazine.

Konitzer screamed and swore as a police detective read Konitzer his rights, before he “ultimately exercised his right to remain silent,” the charges noted.