On December 31, 2025, at approximately 10:00 P.M., Savage Police Officer Ryan Nelson was on routine patrol in the city of Savage, Scott County, Minnesota. While on patrol, Officer Nelson observed a vehicle, a 2021 Black Jeep bearing MN license plate [PLATE REDACTED], traveling in the left-hand lane while traveling eastbound on Egan Drive near the intersection of Allen Boulevard. As Officer Nelson got closer to the vehicle near the intersection of Eagan Drive and Dakota Avenue, the driver made a quick lane change into the right-hand lane without signaling 100 feet in advance.
As a result, Officer Nelson better positioned himself behind the vehicle and activated his emergency lights to conduct a traffic stop. Officer Nelson approached and made contact with the driver, an adult male, subsequently identified via his MN driver's license as Andre Michael Jensen, [DOB REDACTED] (hereinafter “DEFENDANT”). Officer Nelson proceeded to introduce himself, explained the reason for the stop. While speaking with DEFENDANT, Officer Nelson observed DEFENDANT had bloodshot, watery eyes.
Officer Nelson also noted that while speaking with DEFENDANT, he noticed a significant amount of knives in the vehicle, including throwing knives, fixed blade knives, folding knives, a machete, and a hatchet inside the vehicle. DEFENDANT advised his hobby was throwing knives. In addition, while talking with DEFENDANT, Officer Nelson observed a glass bong typically associated with marijuana use on the passenger floorboard. Officer Nelson also saw another glass bong with an apparatus along with a butane torch, which, through his training and experience, noted is typically associated with marijuana wax use.
DEFENDANT also recently admitted to using Kratom. Based upon these initial observations, Officer Nelson asked DEFENDANT to perform field sobriety testing, and DEFENDANT consented. Officer Adam Crain, also of the Savage Police Department, who is a Drug Recognition Evaluator, responded to the location to administer field sobriety tests. Officer Crain began a series of Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, the results of which provided further clues of DEFENDANT’S impairment. During the field sobriety tests, DEFENDANT did not exhibit any clues of impairment on the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (“HGN”) test.
However, DEFENDANT showed significant signs of impairment on the Lack of Convergence ("LOC") test. Specifically, DEFENDANT'S left eye would not converge. Based on his training and experience as a police officer and Drug Recognition Evaluator (DRE), Officer Crain noted that a LOC is an indicator of drug use/impairment, especially in the following drug categories: Central Nervous System (CNS) Depressants, Dissociative Anesthetics, Inhalants, and Cannabis. Officer Crain also administered the Modified Romberg Balance Test.
