Pills and other medications were seized last month from two booths at Hmongtown Marketplace in St. Paul, the same southeast Asian market where seven vendors were charged over sales of unmarked and misbranded drugs and syringes in 2013.

The pills, injectable drugs and needles were seized March 23 during a search by the Ramsey County sheriff’s office. A judge granted the search warrant after an investigator produced evidence uncovered by a confidential informant and an unrelated investigation, according to documents filed in Ramsey County district court.

The sheriff’s office began looking into the vendors after being alerted by someone involved in the marketplace at 217 Como Ave., according to investigator Kevin Navara.

“In the past 90 days, (I have) been contacted by a Concerned Citizen from within the Hmongtown Market who has expressed their concern about several booths who are selling pills and medicines again,” Navara wrote in his March 22 application for a search warrant.

He also wrote that St. Paul police had met with Hmongtown management “regarding the sale of and dangers of selling misbranded, mislabeled medicines.”

Navara said a confidential informant reported seeing suspicious pills in two booths, one of which already had been searched during an unrelated investigation into Thai lottery sales.

“In addition to Thai Lottery evidence in (the booth), investigators located and seized multiple misbranded pill packs, needles, syringes, IVs and medicines which appeared to be outdated and expired,” Navara wrote.

Seven people were charged in 2013 with unlawful sale of prescription drugs, adulterated or misbranded drugs and similar offenses at Hmongtown Marketplace. Police at the time said the drugs had sickened people in the community. They also were investigating whether a recent suicide had used cyanide purchased at the marketplace.