Overview
- Engen’s traffic stop in White Bear Lake early Friday for speeding, a broken headlight, and expired tabs led to DWI testing that recorded a 0.142 preliminary BAC and 0.13 at the station, and he was cited on two misdemeanor counts.
- Officers wrote that Engen said he was “sober cabbing” two passengers and first denied drinking before later admitting to two Coors Light beers around 11 to 11:30 p.m.
- The arrest report identifies fellow Republican Rep. Walter Hudson as a passenger who told police he had a 9 mm handgun, which officers seized for safekeeping after confirming his carry permit.
- The report notes Hudson appeared impaired and claimed a liquor bottle found in a child’s car seat, and as of Monday afternoon he had not been charged in connection with the stop.
- Minnesota law sets a 0.04 BAC limit for carrying with a permit, with mandatory suspension at that level and revocation above 0.10 upon conviction, and it is unclear whether police tested Hudson’s BAC.