United States of America v. Donald Albin Blom

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

On May 26, 1999, Katie Poirier, a nineteen-year-old sales clerk, disappeared from a convenience store in Moose Lake, Minnesota. For over three weeks, authorities and volunteers conducted a highly publicized search for Poirier and a man shown on the store’s surveillance tape forcing her to leave. Donald Albin Blom became a suspect. Police obtained and executed warrants to search Blom’s home in Rich-field, Minnesota, his wife’s property in Kerrick, Minnesota, and his wife’s Chevrolet Suburban. They seized four firearms found on the Kerrick property and ammunition found at…