An Albert Lea man is facing felony drug charges for buying roughly 2.5 ounces of cocaine from a police informant last month in Austin.

Miguel Angel Sanchez-Hernandez, 28, faces one count of felony drug possession and one count of felony drug sales in Mower County court.

An arrest warrant was filed with a criminal complaint Wednesday.

According to the complaint, an Austin police detective and two agents from the Southeast Minnesota Narcotics and Gang Task Force met with a “confidential reliable informant” on Aug. 8 in Austin.

The informant told authorities he had been supplying cocaine to Sanchez-Hernandez roughly every two weeks. They typically met in public parking lots in Albert Lea, Austin and Rochester, the informant said.

On Aug. 8, authorities put an audio transmitter on the informant and followed him to a public parking lot in the 1500 block of 18th Avenue Northwest in Austin, where the informant met with Sanchez-Hernandez.

After a short conversation, Sanchez-Hernandez allegedly purchased the cocaine for $2,500. He was apprehended while walking back to his pickup truck, according to the complaint.

Sanchez-Hernandez was taken to the Law Enforcement Center, where he admitted he had been getting about two ounces of cocaine every two to three weeks for the past seven months from the informant. He said he resold most of it but used some himself.