The Complainant having reviewed the applicable reports believes the following facts to be true: On or about April 25, 2025, at 12:24 AM, Saint Paul Police officers located a stolen vehicle out of Maple Grove in the area of Hazelwood and Idaho in the City of St. Paul, Ramsey County, MN. The stolen vehicle was a Hyundai Elantra stolen out of Maple Grove. The officers initiated a traffic stop and gave commands to the driver, later identified as Joce’ylnn Renae MAPPS, [DOB REDACTED], the defendant herein.
Once the defendant exited the vehicle, the officers placed her under arrest. While approaching the defendant, the officers could smell the odor of freshly burnt fentanyl coming from the defendant’s person. The officers also observed the defendant’s eye to be constricted which was consistent with drug use. While searching the vehicle, the officers located multiple crumbled pieces of tinfoil with a burnt drug residue consistent with narcotics use in the defendant’s bag on the front passenger seat. The officers located s small clear baggie with a white powdery substance in the driver side door pocket near the inside handle (item #1). The officers also located a straw on defendant’s person that had burnt drug residue on it.
The officers were not able to administer standard field sobriety tests due to the defendant being uncooperative. The officers arrested the defendant and took her to Regions hospital for evaluation. The officers prepared a search warrant application to obtain a sample of the defendant’s blood or urine for chemical testing. The search warrant application was prepared and presented to the Hon. R. Aligada who reviewed and approved it. The search warrant was presented to the defendant. The defendant was advised that refusal to submit to testing under warrant was a crime.
The defendant refused to cooperate with the execution of the warrant and refused to provide both blood or urine samples. The officers conducted presumptive tests on item #1 which weighed 0.07 grams. The test result was positive for fentanyl, a scheduled II controlled substance under Minnesota law.
